Programmers are encouraged to choose names for distributed libraries whose names are chosen not to collide with other libraries’ names. This appendix suggests a convention for generating unique library names, similar to the convention for Java [1].
A unique library name can be formed by associating the library with an Internet domain name, such as mit.edu. The lower-case components of the domain are reversed to form a prefix for the library name. Adding further name components to establish a hierarchy may be advisable, depending on the size of the organization associated with the domain name, the number of libraries to be distributed from it, and other organizational properties or conventions associated with the library.
Programmers are encouraged to use library names that are suitable for use in the file-system mapping described in appendix F. Special characters in domain names that do not fit the convention should be replaced by hyphens or suitable “escape sequences” that, as much as possible, are suitable for avoiding collisions. Here are some examples for possible library names according to this convention:
(edu mit swiss cheese)The name of a library does not necessarily indicate an Internet address where the package is distributed.