Index | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| name components: | substrings of a name that are separated by a delimiter |
| name resolution: | looking up a name to obtain the associated attributes |
| name service: | a service that resolves resource names to communication identifiers by holding copies of names and their translations |
| name space: | the set of all names recognized by a name service |
| naming context: | an abstraction that maps a name to a set of attributes or to another naming context |
| naming domain: | a name space with a single authority for assigning names |
| navigation: | the process of locating data for name resolution from among multiple name servers |
| nibble: | four bits; half a byte |
| null RPC: | an RPC without parameters |