“The 'name' of a resource indicates what we seek, an 'address' indicates where it is, and a 'route' tells us how to get there.”

— John Shoch

IEN (Internet Experiment Note) document: IEN 19 http://postel.org/ien/txt/ien19.txt, A note on Inter-Network Naming, Addressing, and Routing (January, 1982)
This quotation is often erroneously attributed to Jon Postel.

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