Amir Herzberg wrote:
http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~herzbea//Papers/ecommerce/spoofing.htm
Right, that idea. A couple of things - it's called a petname which has a defined meaning, you can probably google for the defining paper. It is a name that is explicitly not shared with the rest of the world, so it is distinct by definition with the nickname, which is shared.
I didn't find the definition and didn't quite understand the distinction you made.
A petname is a private name that never leaves the local domain. I.e., the browser in this case. In contrast, a nickname is shared. So, for example amazon.com is a nickname for IP# 207.171.163.90 because it is shared. But if a petname were used, I couldn't tell you that my petname for that IP# was "amazing books".
Here's some URLs. I'm not sure what the primary one out of these are:
http://zooko.com/distnames.html http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/pnml.html
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