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A New Way to look at Networking
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Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk on rethinking networking around named content instead of host-to-host conversations. He recounts packet-networking history and lays out the content-centric networking idea that later became NDN.
HN commenters point to it as an inspiring talk behind content-addressed designs like IPFS, Urbit and immutable URLs.
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