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."

Comments

Magnet links?

[Hatta]

Did he just reinvent magnet links?

Re:Magnet links?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is your actual premise here that Van Jacobson, a major contributor to TCP/IP and inventor of the modern flow control it is based on, somehow doesn't have the foggiest idea how the infrastructure HE HELPED FUCKING INVENT works?

Re:Magnet links?

[cayenne8]

My concern is, whenever I hear about "re-inventing the internet"...is that if we do it, this time around, all the government types will want to have protocols in there to assure no anonymity, tight control...and likely make it difficult for the avg person to hook a computer to the internet of the future, and become a true peer.

The genie is out of the bottle, even still today on current internet setup....I'd not count on the govt types allowing the next one, to have a genie....by force of law.

Sounds like the principle behind URNs

[QilessQi]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_name . This is a very old [and good] idea.

For example: urn:isbn:0451450523 is the URN for The Last Unicorn (1968 book), identified by its [ISBN] book number.

Of course [as the dept. notes] you still need to figure out how to get the bits from place to place, which requires a network of some kind, and protocols built on that network which are not so slavishly tied to one model of data organization that we can't evolve it forward.