protocols – Bookmarks

The Next Internet? Inside PARC’s Vision of Content Centric Networking

… he thinks the Internet has outgrown its original underpinnings as a network built on physical addresses, and that it’s time to put aside TCP/IP and start over with a completely novel approach to naming, storing, and moving data. Jacobson’s alternative is called Content Centric Networking, or CCN, and it’s grown into the single biggest internal project at PARC… If the ideas behind CCN were broadly adopted, PARC researchers believe, it would speed the delivery of content and vastly reduce the load on the networking equipment at the Internet’s core. It would also pose a challenge to the model of utility-style storage and processing that’s come to be known as cloud computing.

The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)

Hooray for comparing FB to AOL + Prodigy in the 90s. Also for RDF jokes. “You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of hyperintelligent but hopelessly socially naive people, and you would not be wrong. Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in people for whom social interaction has always been more of a puzzle to be reverse-engineered than a good time to be had, and the result is these vaguely Martian protocols.”