What we hope is an official list of host names

R.W. Watson

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NWG/RFC #289                                     21-DEC-71 16:29  8295
What We Hope Is An Official List of Host Names   Richard W. Watson
                                                 SRI-ARC

The enclosed is what we hope will be accepted as a list of official formal host names and nicknames. As no other subject worked on by the NWG has generated so much comment, it is worthwhile to review briefly how this list came into being.

The need for some standard set of names recognized by NCP's and Telnets and usable on hardcopy to designate a persons affiliation had been recognized for some time and several sets of names were in use.

Peggy Karp issued the first formal proposal of a set of standard names in RFC 226, NIC 7625. This proposal was answered by a number of counter proposals and culminated in RFC 247, NIC 7688. People still were not happy with this proposal as names normally associated with hosts or projects were not used.

At the last NWG meeting a number of people discussed the name problem and agreed that the only reasonable compromise solution was to have both formal names and nicknames and to let the people at the hosts choose their own names within the guideline which the previous dialog had seemed to agree on.

The guidelines were summarized in RFC 273, NIC 7837 and the NIC agreed to collect and publish the names that the people at each host indicated they desired. A number of names were received and a tentative list was published as RFC 280, NIC 8060. More people responded with their desired names or changed the ones in the above list.

Almost all sites have since responded and the following list resulted.

I think people should feel free to change their host name when ever the situation warrants.

Formal Name Nickname Network Address

AMES-67 16

AMES-ILLIAC I4

AMES-TIP 144

BBN-NCC NCC 5 BBN-TENEX BBN 69

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BBN-TENEXB BBNB 133

BBN-TESTIP 158

BURR 15

BURR-TEST 79

CASE-10 13

CMU-10 14

ETAC-TIP 148

GWC-TIP 152

HARV-1 PDP1 73

HARV-10 ACL 9

HARV-11 137

ILL-ANTS ANTS 12

ILL-CAC CAC 76

LL-67 10

LL-TSP 138

LL-TX-2 TX-2 74

MCCL-418 22

MIT-AI 134

MIT-DMCG DMCG 70

MIT-MULTICS MIT-M 6

MITRE-TIP 145

NBS-CCST NBS 19 NBS-TIP 147

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NCAR-7600 25

NCAR-TIP 153

RADC-645 18

RADC-TIP 146

RAND-CSG 71

RAND-RCC 7

SDC-ADEPT SDC 8

SRI-AI 66

SRI-ARC 2

SU-AI 11

TINK-418 21

UCLA-CCN CCN 65

UCLA-NMC SEX 1

UCLA-MOD75 UCSB 3

USC-44 23

USC-TIP 151

UTAH-10 4

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ] [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 12/96 ]

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