Although domain names traditionally designate computers and named services, the dot-museum nomenclature can easily be extended to provide name space for individual objects in museum collections. This would allow for a name such as monalisa.collections.louvre.museum. Taking a leap into a future where other sectors operate such domains, identically structured name spaces could be used in each of them that houses catalogable objects, such as dot-library containing magnacarta.manuscripts.british.library. The DNS was never intended to be applied to the management of such information structures and it would be egregiously misused by any attempt at incorporating it in the implementation of what is being suggested here. That notwithstanding, the name constructs initially devised for the DNS can be extended in far-reaching regards.
Museums have a fundamental mandate to describe and catalogue their holdings.
The extreme utility of the various repositories of resulting information being interoperable has long been recognised, and means for implementing this has been the focus of much cost and effort. The availability of a single coherent name space into which every single museum object can be placed has potential for bringing the realisation of this goal immeasurably closer. The potential utility of extending this across the boundaries of adjacent cultural sectors should be apparent. The core elements of this policy are a statement of the basis for entitlement to registration in the domain, and the principles used for the naming of subdomains. The naming principles are being devised at the time of present writing.