Goal To establish a standard for human readable subnet names Motivation How many of you can name the first 5 characters of 3 subnets? The ones your canisters are deployed to? How about the European “BOB” subnet? In other cloud ecosystems such as AWS or GCP, deployment regions, such as us-east-1 pr…

:+1: DNS was a good idea because giant meaningless blobs are very bad for human consumption.

This is a good idea No strong preference, but my gut tells me to stop re-inventing the wheel with everything on the IC and go with the more industry standard one, to reduce the learning curve when coming from other places. Do you have any thoughts on where these names will be officially stored? I…

[image] Gekctek: Do you have any thoughts on where these names will be officially stored? Is it adding a new property to subnet metadata somewhere that would be backfilled through an NNS proposal? No defined thoughts at the moment, mostly curious to receive thoughts around naming schemes. T…

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bartosz August 28, 2025, 8:38am 5

FYI, using ideas from this thread we’ve implemented and deployed a “minimal CNS”, an experimental naming service, see this post for details.

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