Re: The Next Big Thing: Named-Data Networking

[Murat Yuksel <yuksem () cse unr edu>]

On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Sander Steffann <sander () steffann nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > How many Youtube subject tags will fit in *your* routers' TCAM?
> >
> > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/09/04/2156232/ucla-cisco-more-launch-consortium-to-replace-tcpip
> >
> > [ Can someone convince me this isn't the biggest troll in the history 
> > of the internet? Cause it sounds like shoehorning DNS /and Google/ into 
> > IP in place of, y'know, IP addresses. ]
>
> Well, you don't need addresses for clients, just for content... From the architecture page at 
> http://named-data.net/project/archoverview/:
>
> "Note that neither Interest nor Data packets carry any host or interface addresses (such as IP addresses); Interest 
> packets are routed towards data producers based on the names carried in the Interest packets, and Data packets are 
> returned based on the state information set up by the Interests at each router hop."
>
> So it's basically suggesting a NAT-like table in every single router. And we all know how well NAT boxes scale...

We were writing in parallel. :)

-Murat

> Cheers,
> Sander

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