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[ NNSquad ] "CCN" - The Next Internet? (+ my comments) 

"CCN" - The Next Internet? (+ my comments)

http://j.mp/MhM8fP  (Xconomy)

   "The Internet may be hurtling toward collapse under the strain of too
    much traffic. But PARC research fellow Van Jacobson thinks he knows
    how to fix it."

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One potentially major issue with this concept is that in the real
world, we do tend to use the source of data as a key aspect of
determining its authenticity.  We may not care (nor even have an easy
way to determine) which Google datacenter a file is coming from, but
we know it's coming from Google.  The CCN concept (which is always
going to expand as Campus Computing Network for me -- the name of the
main IT operation at UCLA when I was there) includes an authenticity
element in the formal names of content, but this leaves the question
of how such names are specified by actual searching users -- who may
be faced with a plethora of results that in actuality could be very
different, but still technically authentic from the standpoint of the
CCN environment.  Would CCN tend to mask or de-emphasize the
visibility of source information for ordinary users?  Even if source
information were obvious, would most users be in a position to
immediately determine whether or not they trusted that particular
source?  Many questions.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren 
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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