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A New Way to look at Networking

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Networking & internet infrastructure

What it is

Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk argues that networking should be rethought around named data rather than host-to-host conversations. He contrasts the circuit and datagram views of the internet and sketches content-centric networking as a replacement for the location-centric TCP/IP model.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as a clear explanation of why data-centric networking fits how the internet is actually used, and as a core talk on content addressing.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 3 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “(an excellent google tech talk)”

    Excellent Google tech talk on rethinking networking.

    pohl, 2011-02 · Strong recommendation · in “A father knows best: Vint Cerf re-thinks the Internet in Stanford talk”

  2. “This video explains very clearly how this is the case”

    Explains data-centric networking versus location-centric TCP/IP.

    runeks, 2012-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Free Speech and DDOS Attacks”

  3. “Watching this now. It's great.”

    Insights on network effects and historical tidbits.

    contingencies, 2018-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?”

  4. “Van Jacobson gave a very informative presentation at Netflix about it”

    Van Jacobson presentation on content centric networking.

    dmuino, 2011-05 · Recommendation · in “Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America”

  5. “Van Jacobsen gave a good talk on this at Google”

    Van Jacobson on authenticating content rather than connections.

    gwu78, 2015-06 · Recommendation · in “Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"”

  6. “proposes a content-addressing based replacement for the IP protocol”

    Van Jacobson explains telephony and networking paradigms, proposes content addressing.

    some1else, 2018-07 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: tcp/ip, content addressing, internet architecture, van jacobson, named data networking

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