NAMING METHOD AND ITS EXTENSION TO AN ACCESS-CONTROL MODEL USING THE GRM

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.