Very interesting question!

We are supposed to use brains

Dear Virendra Kumar Saxena,

today's way of using Internet is address-centric. In addition to the current address-centric nature of Internet usage, we need a new information-centric form of Internet use. In addition to today's services, the Internet should serve as a globally distributed, information-centric-oriented organized virtual library. To retrieve requested information, rather than URLs, we should use URNs.

Using the Internet as a worldwide distributed virtual library can improve teaching.

My pictures show how we can help all students so that they do not have to search long for important, good information.

In the Internet today, the information is stored as Web Objects and is accessible only via Web Addresses (URLs). No attributes are assigned to the Web Objects and this is a major drawback. Today's Internet can be extended to an Information (Content) Centric Network (ICN, CCN). The information as objects in the ICN can be better structured. To structured information in the ICN can be assigned corresponding attributes. This enables new ICN services to be designed and Internet Yellow Pages for Students can be realised – for example as Internet Sevice Go To. These possibilities illustrate my picture. In this way, a virtual library can be set up.

It should also be possible to enter in a browser only the name of the desired object to access it. On which host the object is, we are not interested. That means, we think according to the principle "Information Centric". The first known step in the direction of "Information/Name Centric Networking" is already realized with the help of DOIs (Digital Object Identifier). To get an article, we only need its DOI. From which server (host) we finally download the article, this is meaningless for us. The DOI of the desired article must be resolved to the location of the server with this article. Of great importance here is "DOI Resolver".

As my picture illustrates, URN (Uniform Resource Name) can serve as a kind of DOI.

Best regards

Anatol Badach

Mila, thanks for your remark.

Anatol, appreciated your very valuable presentation and remark.