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SGNP Home Project Members Background Draft SGNP Specification Project Site w Project Files w Discussion Forums w News w Tracker w Documentation w Surveys	BACKGROUND Fundamental to building grids that span locations and administrative domains is a secure, global naming scheme that: Names all resources and services across multiple locations and administrative domains Provides secure authentication without requiring a central trusted authority Supports reliable communication between resources and services even if… they migrate they fail and must be re-started they are replicated they happen to be managed by multiple enterprises they are on heterogeneous computing platforms Is scalable to trillions of resources and services SGNP IN BRIEF SGNP is designed to provide a naming standard that will operate in concert with other important grid standards. SGNP will accelerate the development and proliferation of grid computing in commercial environments by providing a global naming scheme, a method for secure communication among grid resources and services, and capabilities for continuation of such communications even in the event of any number of interruptions (the migration, failure, or replication of entities, for example). These capabilities are fundamental to building and successfully deploying grids that span locations and administrative domains.