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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. Great idea at the concept stage. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just don't expect anyone to early adopt except the usual hypebots and yahoos. We can't even get rid of IPv4 and you want do replace TCP entirely.

    1. Re:Great idea at the concept stage. by Enry · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This. There's likely trillions of dollars invested in IPv4 that is going to be around for decades. Consider the Internet like highways and train track widths - we're stuck with it for a very long time.

    2. Re:Great idea at the concept stage. by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You know some kind of ill conceived "content protection" is going be built into this protocol.

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  2. Different layers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are also funding a study to replace roads with run-flat tires. Oh, right, different layers.

  3. Now I know why Tsinghua is involved by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was puzzled with the involvement of Tsinghua University of China with this thing

    After reading your comment it starts to make sense

    The China Communist Party needs to regain control of the Internet (at least inside China), that explains why they endorse this new scheme so much

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  4. 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

  5. I don't see this as so horrible by sirwired · · Score: 5, Informative

    I could totally see the two networks running simultaneously. It's completely accurate that TCP/IP sucks for mass content delivery; it's gigantic waste of bandwidth. And for point-to-point interaction this protocol would be massively inefficient.

    But why can the two protocols not run on top of the same Layer 2 infrastructure?

  6. 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.