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.

Explaining Dave Winer

Phil Jones does it best:

What I'd suggest is that Winer understands, maybe better than anyone, how these things work as an "ecosystem". ...

Look carefully. Whatever Winer is promoting, he always has a tool and a format and some kind of hosting or central server and he's "dog-fooding" it and talking it up on his blog and he's finding new, quick-win, applications to extend the platform and he's making new connections into a user community and he's on the offensive, smacking down any potential rivals or threats to his authority ...

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.

The Ideal Internet Information Object

Comments on the Internet Notebook

For some reason, Blogger won't let me comment on this very blog (a win for the cloud!), so I'm answering your comments on the Internet Notebook here.

Gavin, I didn't mention ubiquitous access, because I take that for granted in an internet tool. I was just listing the kind of features that describe the tool's "mental universe".

Craig, you're referring to content-centric networking when you ask for an internet that never forgets? Well, we'll have to make do without that for the moment.

10 Must-Have Features of an Internet Notebook

• typed, bidirectional hyperlinks = structured tags
• wiki namespace
• ubiquitous reverse chronological access
• search
• outlining
• asymmetric follow
• unlimited undo
• instantaneousity
• views
  
• secret feature

Dig we must!

Quoth Dave Winer

It's time to use the web again to store our ideas, and instead of relying on Silicon Valley companies to link our stuff together, let's just use the Internet. That's what it was designed for.

We'll go back to basics now, take what we learned from this round of innovation, and build it for real this time.