Wonderful essay, thanks for posting it. For servers, I have seen numbered-names work quite well in most of the projects that I've worked on -- www01, www02, ap

Wonderful essay, thanks for posting it. For servers, I have seen numbered-names work quite well in most of the projects that I've worked on -- www01, www02, app01, app02, db01, mq01, mq02, so on and so forth. Workstations my university were named by location -- swlab01 or even by the hall numbers, 496-01, 496-02. Unfortunately, I've never come across more creative themes of hostnames like colors, or planets in Star Wars or football players etc. But I will definitely re-read this RFC next time I get to setup a lab or a series of servers from scratch.