I participated in an REU a couple years back working with Named Data Networking. Seems pretty similar... The ahem central problem lies with ourselves: TCP/IP wa

I participated in an REU a couple years back working with Named Data Networking. Seems pretty similar... The ahem central problem lies with ourselves: TCP/IP was designed as a communication network, not a distribution network. NDN seeks to be a ubiquitous data distribution network. Iirc, the design helps fend off DDoS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking http://named-data.net/ http://named-data.net/