In the management of globally distributed networks and services, each
managed object must be uniquely identified with a globally unique name
by managers and be properly access-controlled. The authors propose a
solution for global naming and its extension to an access control mode
l using the GRM [1]. The global naming method involves use of the rela
tionship concept, rather than containment. In the access control model
, each managed object class is access-controlled by the characteristic
s inherited from a domain class as a superclass in the inheritance tre
e of the MIB.