Content-Centric Networking & the Next Internet

waderoush writes "PARC research fellow Van Jacobson argues that the Internet was never designed to carry exabytes of video, voice, and image data to consumers' homes and mobile devices, and that it will never be possible to increase bandwidth fast enough to keep up with demand. In fact, he thinks that the Internet has outgrown its original underpinnings as a network built on physical addresses, and that it's time to put aside TCP/IP and start over with a completely novel approach to naming, storing, and moving data. The fundamental idea behind Jacobson's alternative proposal — Content Centric Networking — is that to retrieve a piece of data, you should only have to care about what you want, not where it's stored. If implemented, the idea might undermine many current business models in the software and digital content industries — while at the same time creating new ones. In other words, it's exactly the kind of revolutionary idea that has remade Silicon Valley at least four times since the 1960s."

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Re:Magnet links?

[MightyMartian]

I think the whole thing falls under the "I have a great idea, but I actually don't have the foggiest idea how infrastructure works now, but hey, I need to a BIG SEXY CONTROVERSIAL headline."

Imagine if even a tenth of the fucking morons out there who pontificate on subjects for which they had no real knowledge at all actually did have that knowledge. My God, we'd probably be terraforming Pluto by now!