Subject: [icnrg] ICNRG Survey twiki updated

From: Paulo Mendes <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:03:36 +0100

Dear all

As mentioned before, I just updated the twiki page related to the Survey document to reflect the current version -00. I invite you to send your comments to the mailing list and/or to post them on the twiki page.

At this moment, we need to validate the usefulness of the draft to ICNRG (to be done hopefully in the Hong Kong meeting) in order to allow authors to progress to version -01. Moreover, this type of document is only useful as a RG document and not as an individual draft, since it is suppose to show the perspective of the icnrg community about what ICN is and may be in the future.

As you can see from the document, the Survey draft is not another (deep) analysis of existing icn proposals. We do not aim to analyze the naming schemes, routing schemes, caching schemes that have been used, for instance. For that we have several papers, as the 2012 IEEE Communication Magazine paper mentioned in the draft already, and the to be released 2013 IEEE Surveys & Tutorials paper mentioned by George. We have already the research challenges draft, that aims to analyze future functional issues.

So, what the draft aims to contribute to is to analyze if the assumptions are correct, namely: are we having the right view about the role of all stakeholders?; Should ICN frameworks be more aware of the stakeholder surroundings and not just the data objects?; Should ICN frameworks be build based on the fundamentals of self-organizatino systems, aiming to create a solid ground for scalability and robustness? Should the ICN approaches follow a more declarative description of their functionalities, on contrast to the usual imperative programming, aiming to create the bases for a flexible platform?

So, if Dave is fine with the direction that we gave to the draft, I would like to know is there is space for us to proceed this line of work.

Cheers
Paulo

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Paulo Mendes, Ph.D
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