While content distribution is a significant motivation, a fair amount of the current research is looking at benefits beyond caching: i.e., what do you get with web-style semantics at the lower layers, per-packet crypto,…
The participants are actually mostly universities. IP is discussed on the project site: http://named-data.net/project/ndn-copyright-and-patents/ http://named-data.net/consortium/
While content distribution is a significant motivation, a fair amount of the current research is looking at benefits beyond caching: i.e., what do you get with web-style semantics at the lower layers, per-packet crypto,…
The participants are actually mostly universities. IP is discussed on the project site: http://named-data.net/project/ndn-copyright-and-patents/ http://named-data.net/consortium/