Information-centric networking: part II [Guest Editorial]

We argued boldly in the first part of the feature topic on information-centric networking (ICN) [1] that ICN marks a fundamental shift in communications and networking. Indeed, we claim that the paradigm change ICN fosters is poised to have a large impact on the way we think about telecommunications in general, the way we design network architectures in particular, the trade-offs we consider in the specification of (future) protocols, and the possibilities for new services, especially in mobile and wireless environments. For example, in the first part of this feature topic we saw how content-centric networking (CCN) can be used to build social networking applications [2, 3] at a fraction of the complexity of today´s systems.