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Is there a 140 word summary of what that is? It's website is a confusing mess of consortium speak.

• takeda 9y ago
  Not 140 words, but: https://named-data.net/project/execsummary/ https://named-data.net/project/execsummary/ Essentially the big change is that instead of using addresses for servers what if you put addresses on the data itself. That approach gives some properties: - network can cache the data - no CDNs needed, no slash dot effects etc - free multicasting (a hard problem at scale with TCP/IP) - better handling of slow/lossy network - easy multipath routing etc. It's very efficient for things that can potentially have many people interested in. Like streaming popular videos, hosting images (like discussed here imgur). The benefit for these sites is that they would have lower costs to operate because they would require less bandwidth, because anything that's popular will be cached by the network. Edit: Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking