Content-centric networking / dissemination

[Ant Bryan]

Hi,

I just came across this group, and the wiki page.

I've been working on a project that deals with at least some of these
issues, and lays a foundation that can be built upon.

It's called Metalink and it's an XML file format for storing the ways
to retrieve content from multiple sources (FTP, HTTP, P2P). It can
contain other metadata and information like checksums, signatures, and
information to repair downloads. Right now, about 20 programs support
it.

More information is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink
http://www.metalinker.org/
http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2007/02/25/metalink-unifies-internet-downloads

If you're interested, just view this file in a text editor:
http://download.packages.ro/metalink/testing/openoffice/OOo_2_1_0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_tar_gz.metalink

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(( Anthony Bryan
)) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]

[Noam]

Hi Anthony,
I'm glad you're interested in the project and surprise you found it
exists (as far as I know nobody knows about it).

Anyway, I've give a look at Metalink and it seems useful and in the
right direction (unification), but there is a fundamental difference
between Metalink and
what our project aims to acheive.

We are attempting to reconstruct the computing world, not fix a single
problem. This is a really ambitious, long term goal, but we also hope
that we can iteratively achieve some (convincing) results.

Regarding content-centric networks, there is much more to it than
providing a uniform way to download files. In our "new" world the word
"file" doesn't mean anything. Live objects are passed around, meaning,
you can pass you friend a reference to a movie you hold, and he may
choose to copy the object locally ("download") or view it from your
computer (implemented via streaming). Therefore, there will never be a
need to "unify" download methods because the network is transparent.

Also, there is much more to Enough than data-centric networks, look at
the "buzzwords" section (that's really the main page currently).

- Noam

On May 8, 6:46 am, Ant Bryan <anthonybr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just came across this group, and the wiki page.
>
> I've been working on a project that deals with at least some of these
> issues, and lays a foundation that can be built upon.
>
> It's called Metalink and it's an XML file format for storing the ways
> to retrieve content from multiple sources (FTP, HTTP, P2P). It can
> contain other metadata and information like checksums, signatures, and
> information to repair downloads. Right now, about 20 programs support
> it.
>
> More information is at:
>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalinkhttp://www.metalinker.org/http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2007/02/25/metalink-unifies-inte...
>
> If you're interested, just view this file in a text editor:http://download.packages.ro/metalink/testing/openoffice/OOo_2_1_0_Lin...