From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Skip Tavakkolian Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 23:13:57 +0000 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c298e25982f20515d6889d Subject: [9fans] Will the future Internet resemble Plan 9 namespaces? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 51140608-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a11c298e25982f20515d6889d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 It is interesting that one of the possible futures of the Internet -- PARC's NDN (Named Data Networking) -- resembles Plan 9's namespaces where the user is most interested in the name of the resource rather than where it resides (e.g. users/programs care about /mnt/factotum or /n/sources rather than where it's imported from). https://www.parc.com/content/attachments/named-data-networking.pdf --001a11c298e25982f20515d6889d Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
It is interesting that one of the possible futures of= the Internet -- PARC's NDN (Named Data Networking) -- resembles Plan 9= 's namespaces where the user is most interested in the name of the reso= urce rather than where it resides (e.g. users/programs care about =C2=A0/mn= t/factotum or /n/sources rather than where it's imported from).

https://www.parc.com/content/attachments/named-data-networ= king.pdf

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