review articles THE INTERNET HAS become a critical platform for economic, political, cultural, and social activity. The technology behind the Internet continues to evolve, with ramifications for not only the technologies that govern network and application functions, but also for social, economic, and legal concerns. Internet protocols impact not only the basic performance and reliability of Internet services, but also impact debates about fairness issues in content delivery, free speech, trust and cybersecurity, privacy and intellectual property, and control over content. This article discusses a proposed future Internet architecture that changes how data is delivered over the Internet. Named Data Networking (NDN) is a Many of these techniques are implemented in the application layer of today's Internet. NDN enables them at the network layer, which encourages applications to comport with them. key insights ˽ NDN is a proposed future Internet architecture that changes the technical protocols that support applications, with implications for social, economic, and policy dimensions of today's Internet ecosystem. ˽ These implications affect a range of stakeholders, including content producers, consumers, regulators, and network operators. ˽ For consumers, NDN can expand options for free speech, security, privacy, and anonymity, while raising new challenges for data retention and forgetting. For governments and content industries, NDN raises new challenges and possibilities for control of content, and for ensuring neutrality across public networks.
