Unique Designation

Another site by Pete Maynard
<pete@port22.co.uk>

This site is dedicated to Information-Centric Networking (ICN).

Recent Activity

A list of activities relating in some way to the information centric paradigm.

• 2020-06-12 Authenticating Shared Web Caches [#interesting] Link
• 2020-03-10 Data Oriented Architecture (DOA) [#interesting] Link

Standards

The world of ICN is quickly changing and is actively being developed by many different people with differing interests. This section will try to maintain a selected subset list of useful standards for newbies and implementers alike.

• ICN Ping Protocol Specification
• ICN Traceroute Protocol
• Internet Protocol Tunneling Over Content Centric Mobile Networks
• Design Guidelines for Name Resolution Service in ICN
• Information-Centric Networking: Baseline Scenarios

Getting Started with…

• Developing ICN applications: See NDN for reference implementations and libraries. They also have an international testbed.
• Running my very own ICN testbed: Mini-NDN: A Mininet based NDN emulator
• Understanding ICN: As with many things Wikipedia’s ICN page has the answers. However, in this case (early 2020) it needs updating.
• Proposing a new standard: The IETF has a research group called Information-Centric netwrking Research Group (ICNRG), which is the current driving force for ICN. It was chartered on 2012 April 17th.
• Finding the latest standards: The latest standards can be found at ICNRG

It is strongly recommended that you sign up with the NDN and ICNRG mailing lists to keep updated with the ongoing developments.

Guides

Due to the fluid state of ICN there are a lack of practical guides. Feel free to write some.

My current todo list:

• An Introduction to ICN
  
• My First Interest: Speaking ICN
  
• A guide to ICN Ping
• A guide to ICN Tracepath

Academic Publications

• IEEE HotICN Since 2018
• ACM ICN Since 2011

History of this site

This site was created on the 10th of March 2020, by Peter Maynard. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. The site’s sole objective is to raise awareness of ICN and to provide newcomers with information to get started. If you spot a mistake, or wish to add something you may do so at https://gitlab.com/PMaynard/unique-designation.net/. Which is where the source code for this site is located. All content found on this site, and in the source repository is under CC BY-SA 4.0.

• 2020 March 10: Initial Commit. (Pete)
  • Sections: Recent Activity, Standards, Getting started, Guides, Academic Publications, and History of this site.

Contact

Any questions, comments, or concerns send them to Pete (either email or matrix) <pete>@port22.co.uk. Want to work on a research project? Me too! Get in touch.