A scheme, determined by network protocols, for identifying the sending device and destination device for any given item of information traveling on a network
A method of identifying a resource (such as a program) or piece of information (such as a file) on a network Methods of addressing vary considerably from network to network Simply-- Addressing is NAMING something so everything else can find it
How computers find each other, and find files and programs within each other, on the Internet - or on any network, for that matter
Printing of the address on a document/letter/label This shows on the outside of the mail piece
Networks have to have some way of uniquely identifying the hosts on the network Like the telephone system, network addressing is usually done with numbers; TCP/IP, for example, uses IP addresses