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A New Way to look at Networking

Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk argues for rethinking networking around named data rather than host-to-host connections. He gives the history and the unsolved problems of the current internet architecture.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as the foundational talk on content-centric and named-data networking, and for its internet history stories.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Google TechTalks
Topic
content-centric networking
Format
talk
Level
advanced
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
7
Recommendation years in dataset
2012–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • Consider a society that has left Earth. If light takes minutes to travel between locations, is a chatty protocol what you want? Or do you need a whole host of different application-level solutions to this problem? There's a different lens to look at it. There's …

    barrkel on Hacker News · 2024-09
    In How the Hourglass Won

  • Ye olde, but still worth watching: Van Jacobson's Google Talk from 2006, "A New Way to look at Networking": [VIDEO]

    seiji on Hacker News · 2012-07
    In Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki

  • Very good reading. I'd also recommend Van Jacobson's talk [VIDEO] You'll learn some good stories about internet history. He has done a lot of work on TCP congestion control, especially the fast retransmission idea by using duplicate ACKs. There is an interesting thing about TCP. …

    pololee on Hacker News · 2017-06
    In Network Protocols

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