[SAGE] System Naming Conventions

[Neil Waybright <neil.waybright@gmail.com>]

I am looking for formal studies of system naming conventions.  I read
with a great deal of interest the thread on the subject on 31 March
2004 (<http://www.sage.org/mailarchive/sage-members-archive/2004/msg00803.html>
was part of the series).  There were a number of good points, but I am
searching for a more analytical treatment.  An article from a peer
reviewed journal would be best.  I asked the smartest person on the
Internet (Mr. Google), but my google-fu must be weak.  I found the
links below [1], [2], [3], [4], but they aren't quite as thorough as I
would like.  Does anyone know of a better source?  You can reply to me
off-list and I will summarize if people feel this horse is been beaten
too many times (after all, [4] is the same conversation in 1998)....
Neil
[1] <http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/networks/dns/naming.html>
[2] <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html>
[3] <http://itmanager.blogs.com/notes/2004/03/system_naming_c.html>
[4] <http://www.sage.org/mailarchive/sage-members-archive/1998/msg00369.html?
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