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Scenarios and Research Issues for a Network of Information

This paper describes ideas and items of work within the 
framework of the EU-funded 4WARD project. We present 
scenarios where the current host-centric approach to infor- 
mation storage and retrieval is ill-suited for and explain 
how a new networking paradigm emerges, by adopting the 
information-centric network architecture approach, which 
we call Network of Information (NetInf). NetInf capital- 
izes on a proposed identifier/locator split and allows users 
to create, distribute, and retrieve information using a com- 
mon infrastructure without tying data to particular hosts. 
NetInf introduces the concepts of information and data ob- 
jects. Data objects correspond to the particular bits and 
bytes of a digital object, such as text file, a specific encod- 
ing of a song or a video. Information objects can be used 
to identify other objects irrespective of their particular dig- 
ital representation. After discussing the benefits of such an 
indirection, we consider the impact of NetInf with respect 
to naming and governance in the Future Internet. Finally, 
we provide an outlook on the research scope of NetInf along 
with items for future work.