[mianosm]

Coming from a systems background (administrator, engineer, and architect for many years): this is horrendous, but insightful as to how things were back when it was written.

Coming up with a uniform, concise, and easily decipherable scheme is really the best for naming nodes on a network (be it at your home, or in a data center with 10s of thousands of machines (virtual and physical)).

GUID is a bit extreme, but leveraging DDNS, and having a plan is always the best (and not naming things after a finite index like: planets, cartoon characters, mythological objects, or models).