Ambient Networks interconnect independent realms that may use
different local network technologies and may belong to different
administrative or legal entities. At the core of these advanced
internetworking concepts is a flexible naming architecture based
on dynamic indirections between names, addresses and identities.
This paper gives an overview of the connectivity abstractions of
Ambient Networks and then describes its naming architecture in
detail, comparing and contrasting them to other related nextgeneration
network architectures.