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UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP

Posted by timothy on from the still-involves-controls-and-protocols dept.

alphadogg writes Big name academic and vendor organizations have unveiled a consortium this week that's pushing Named Data Networking (NDN), an emerging Internet architecture designed to better accommodate data and application access in an increasingly mobile world. The Named Data Networking Consortium members, which include universities such as UCLA and China's Tsinghua University as well as vendors such as Cisco and VeriSign, are meeting this week at a two-day workshop at UCLA to discuss NDN's promise for scientific research. Big data, eHealth and climate research are among the application areas on the table. The NDN effort has been backed in large part by the National Science Foundation, which has put more than $13.5 million into it since 2010.

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  1. Youtube video by Van Jacobson, from 2006 on this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is a talk on youtube from 2006 by Van Jacobson that describes this idea before it was called named data networking. It is really neat, and I am surprised that it has taken so long for somebody to actually try to implement it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM

  2. This is BAD. Very very BAD. by EmagGeek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In a nutshell, this is applying DRM to all of your connection attempts. You will only be able to make connections that are "authorized" by TPTB.

    No more free and open networking.