Related work
Domain Name System
- Differences in expressiveness and architecture
Service Location Protocol
- More centralized, less spontaneous
Jini:
- INS can be used for self-organization & fault-tolerant discovery
Universal Plug-and-Play & SSDP
- XML-based descriptions; INS fits well
Intentional names in other contexts
- Semantic file systems, adaptive web caching, DistributedDirector