Ila is an associative information space consisting of just 2 basic elements: names and references. Ila is not a naming authority; rather the names in Ila generally have a one-to-one correspondence to URIs. Similarly, the references in Ila generally correspond to links defined in documents located at given URLs. Names do not exist in isolation in Ila: in order for it to be included in the Ila information space, a name must either be referenced in a document at another named resource, or it must itself be the name of a resource that links to another named resource.