name/resolution.md

resolution modes of name in the cybergraph

a cyberlink is a dynamic pointer: from particle resolves to a ranked set of to particles. standard resolution is probabilistic — the relevance machine returns candidates sorted by cyberank. a name is a cyberlink that resolves deterministically: given from, return exactly one to — the latest particle linked by the owning neuron

the same mechanism underlies every naming system: file systems map paths to inodes, DNS maps domains to IP addresses, ENS maps .eth to wallets. all are dynamic pointers where a fixed label resolves to a mutable target. in the cybergraph this is native — a cyberlink already is a dynamic pointer, the only question is the resolution mode

the ~ prefix

the ~ prefix signals deterministic resolution

probabilistic:  cyber             → ranked particles
deterministic:  ~mastercyb/blog   → single latest particle

~ is borrowed from Unix home directories — the neuron is the home, the path after it is a linkchain of names owned by that neuron. this turns the cybergraph into a dynamic file system where every neuron maintains a namespace rooted at ~

mechanics

a name is a cyberlink where:

1. from particle is the name label (content-addressed string, e.g. hash of "blog")
2. to particle is the current value (any particle — a page, an image, a program)
3. resolution picks the to of the latest cyberlink from this neuron for this from

updating a name means creating a new cyberlink with the same from and a different to. the old value remains in history. the latest wins

as semcon

name is a semcon — a structural convention where neurons agree that certain cyberlinks are dynamic pointers meant for deterministic resolution rather than probabilistic search. the ~ prefix is the syntactic marker of this convention

examples

~mastercyb/avatar     → QmCurrentAvatarCID
~mastercyb/blog       → QmLatestBlogPostCID
~mastercyb/config     → QmCurrentConfigCID
~jooy/public-key      → QmJooyPubKeyCID

any neuron can resolve any other neuron's names — the namespace is public, the write access is private (only the owning neuron can update)

relation to .moon names

.moon names are the bostrom bootloader implementation of this concept — purchased identities that map human-readable labels to neurons. names generalize this: every neuron gets an unlimited namespace for free, addressing any particle in the cybergraph

probabilistic resolution is search. deterministic resolution is addressing. both emerge from the same primitive — the cyberlink — distinguished only by a semcon prefix. the cybergraph unifies search engines and file systems into a single structure

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