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... telecommunications industry, from telegraphs to telephones to
computer networks, has alleviated the problem of being able to
communicate with another person, PROVIDED THAT YOU KNOW HOW TO REACH
THEM.
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... As the Internet is comprised of a vast conglomeration of different
people, computers, and computer networks, with none of the hierarchy
imposed by the phone system on the area codes and exchange prefixes,
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... database as part of its role as the Network Information Center for
the TCP/IP portion of the Internet ...
... (DNS) and has some information about hosts, major regional networks,
and large parts of the MILNET system.
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... The primary construct holding information in the Directory is the
"entry". Each Directory entry contains information about one object;
for example, a person, a computer network, or an organization. Each
entry is built from a collection of "attributes", each of which holds
a single piece of information about the object. Some attributes which
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... distributed portion of the namespace (c=US, for example) has a delay
which is partially caused by network transmission times, and can be
compounded by implementations that cache the partial search ...
... WHOIS services for people and networks, and to provide directories of
objects as disparate as NIC Profiles ...