CNNx - Content Centric Networking

[kumavis]

I just discovered that the legendary Xerox PARC

PARC has been in large part responsible for such developments as laser printing, Ethernet, the modern personal computer, graphical user interface (GUI) and desktop paradigm, object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, amorphous silicon (a-Si) applications, and advancing very-large-scale integration (VLSI) for semiconductors.

is 1) still around and 2) working on "Content Centric Networking"

In contrast to IP-based, host-oriented, Internet architecture, content centric networking (CCN) emphasizes content by making it directly addressable and routable. Endpoints communicate based on named data instead of IP addresses.

Sounds a lot like IPFS/IPLD!

CCN began as a research project at the Palo Alto Research Cente (PARC) in 2007. The first software release (CCNx 0.1) was made available in 2009.

They've been at it for awhile, bet they have some interesting ideas.

Further reading

• "CNNx Document Guide" http://blogs.parc.com/ccnx/documentation-guide//
• "Information-Centric Networking Research Group (ICNRG)"
  • working group: https://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/irtf/trac/wiki/icnrg
  • documents + RFCs: https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/icnrg/documents/
• PARC Github
  • CNNx root: https://github.com/PARC/CCNx_Distillery
  • org: https://github.com/PARC

[hsanjuan]

I'll drop this here too: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/papers/Jacobson.pdf