Does anyone here have a grounded opinion about NDN (Named Data Networking)? If that's as new to you as to me, I'm reading here: http://named-data.net It seems to have a lot of implications that I'm trying to think through, not the least of which is the idea that the Internet can and must evolve from an end-to-end communication system to being, itself, a content distribution network. The reason for thinking this way is that "YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, etc., account for more than half of the world's internet traffic" and that reality "is inefficient and unsecure because the information-centric overlay is a poor match to the Internet's conversationally-oriented underlay." I am, myself, perpetually sceptical of efforts to start over, or to put policy into the network itself, such as NDN's aim to make every transmitted packet be signed and to make the network stateful including providing in-network memory. As always, "Who is this for?" needs an answer that looks well ahead. --dan