CCNx (code) is a next-generation content-centric “networking” protocol born from the CCN research group at PARC. Instead of connecting hosts like traditional protocols, CCNx creates a P2P model where clients address data instead of other clients (protocol overview).

I, for one, don’t want to ask the lights of my home-of-the-future to dim by way of an IPv6 address, and I don’t think we’ll be running DNS servers for our homes either - naming every appliance and application would be a chore. I hope to explore the implications of “everyware”, as Adam Greenfield calls it, on future networking in later posts.

(via Trivium)