An architecture for content routing support in the internet
Mark Gritter, David R. Cheriton · 2001
The primary use of the Internet is content distribution | the delivery of web pages, audio, and video to client applications | yet the Internet was never architected for scalable content delivery. The result has been a proliferation of proprietary protocols and ad hoc mechanisms to meet growing content demand. In this paper, we describe a content routing design based on name-based routing as part of an explicit Internet content layer. We claim that this content routing is a natural extension of current Internet directory and routing systems, allows ecient content location, and can be implemented to scale with the Internet. 1 Introduction With the emergence of the World Wide Web, the primary use of the Internet is content distribution, primarily in the form of web pages, but increasingly audio and video streams as well. Some measurements indicate that 70 to 80 percent of wide-area Internet trac is HTTP trac. Much of the remainder consists of RealAudio streams and DNS[4, 12]. That is, ...