WHAT'S NEW
(I am falling behind in keeping this page updated, will add more with time)
May 2026
NDN Community Meeting 2026 Program is online. Whoever is interested, please register to receive the online meeting info.
This month we put two recent writeups on arXiv,
(i) "The Internet Runs on Names" (co-authored with Geoff Huston), and
(ii) "From Map-and-Encap to BIER: Observations on Network Routing Scalability."
In March, I gave a talk at the IRTF Open Meeting during IETF125,
On AI Agent Networking, where
I coined the phrase "Global Namespace, Local Trust" for agentic networking. It is also the direction toward a decentralized Internet.
April 2026
NDN Community Meeting 2026 call for participation is out.This year's meeting will be held virtually on Zoom to make participation accessible to all. We look forward to welcoming both returning colleagues and newcomers at NDNComm 2026!
March 2026
By chance, I came across this interview from 2006, when the IETF was celebrating its 20th anniversary:
Interview with Lixia Zhang, Professor, Computer Science Department, UCLA, Member of the IAB.
Another 20 years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the IETF has now reached 40. The first 20 years witnessed the Internet's explosive growth. The second 20 years brought something different: fundamental changes in how the Internet actually operates. As a retrospective on this latter period, Geoff Huston and I wrote a position paper, "The Internet Runs on Names," examining what has changed and what it means.
December 2025
After a long silence while we were busy with exciting research collaborations with new industrial collaborators, here is a new article before the end of the year:
SRM at 30: Lessons from Early Data-Centric Networking and Their Impact on Named Data Networking.