Talk:Content-centric networking
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[edit] Call for comments
I just created this page because I couldn't find much about this new idea on the Web, after seeing Jacobson's highly interesting Google Tech Talk. The talk failed to address a few points though, and that is what I'm writing about in the last paragraph. Please extend the article so I can learn more from it ! :-)
Also, I'm interested to hear what people think about the idea itself. It seems quite revolutionary to me, and I didn't put most of what I think in the article as that would be too much original work for an article. So here they are, in no particular order :
- Would that kind of network mean the end of web applications as we know them at the moment ? It seems to me that it would make most sense to diffuse the raw data (so that it can be re-used and cached by many) and leave the user-specific formatting for the endpoint to do. Also, programs could be diffused first, using a platform-agnostic form (the revival of the Java applet ?), and then only the data would have to move around.
- Does that sound like what's happening in Grid computing to you too ? In the grid middleware I know best (EGEE's gLite), resources have abstract names that are resolved to the (physically) closest match, with a resource broker possibly moving stuff closer to you on your behalf.
- What about what I said in the last paragraph about real-time use cases ? Would it be best to keep both a diffusion-based infrastructure and a conversation-based one, or turn conversation-based uses into special cases of diffusion (with only one listener) ?
Eventually I'd like Jacobson to see that but I guess he's a fairly busy man :) Aftereight 23:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
This reminds me of Freenet. 213.139.163.144 13:58, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
