Adherence to a common standard for names within DCE cells should benefit both managers and users of DCE:
· Uniformity of name choices across the DCE environment makes it easier for users to locate objects that exist outside their local cell.
· Cell administrators can change the scope of their support or move from cell to cell without requiring retraining on new naming standards.
· Cell management is simplified when similar objects have similar and recognizable names.
· Registration of new objects is more efficient when the name can be assigned according to a predetermined pattern.
· Name choices that are intuitively understood by users will minimize support calls, facilitating the users' transition to a distributed computing environment.
· A well-defined structure of the cell namespaces helps application developers access a reliable yet flexible development and testing environment. Because namespace structures should not be hardcoded into applications, well-named cells help application developers recommend where their applications should be placed in the namespace or facilitate cell administrators advising application developers where their applications should be placed in the cell's namespace.