Networking Named Content

You MUST read Networking Named Content from the good folks at PARC:

Network use has evolved to be dominated by content distribution and retrieval, while networking technology still can only speak of connections between hosts. Accessing content and services requires mapping from the what that users care about to the network’s where. We present Content-Centric Networking (CCN) which takes content as a primitive – decoupling location from identity, security and access, and retrieving content by name. Using new approaches to routing named content, derived heavily from IP, we can simultaneously achieve scalability, security and performance.

Introduction to Content-Centric Networking

By Van Jacobson:



There's also a Google talk, A New Way to Look at Networking, which is very worth watching:



Tip o' the hat to neuraxon77.