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Reflexive Forwarding for CCNx and NDN Protocols
draft-irtf-icnrg-reflexive-forwarding-02

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (icnrg RG)
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Authors David R. Oran , Dirk KUTSCHER , Hitoshi Asaeda , Ken Calvert
Last updated 2026-03-27 (Latest revision 2025-09-23)
Replaces draft-oran-icnrg-reflexive-forwarding
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Abstract

Current Information-Centric Networking protocols such as CCNx and NDN have a wide range of useful applications in content retrieval and other scenarios that depend only on a robust two-way exchange in the form of a request and response (represented by an _Interest-Data exchange_ in the case of the two protocols noted above). A number of important applications however, require placing large amounts of data in the Interest message, and/or more than one two-way handshake. While these can be accomplished using independent Interest-Data exchanges by reversing the roles of consumer and producer, such approaches can be both clumsy for applications and problematic from a state management, congestion control, or security standpoint. This specification proposes a _Reflexive Forwarding_ extension to the CCNx and NDN protocol architectures that eliminates the problems inherent in using independent Interest-Data exchanges for such applications. It updates RFC8569 and RFC8609.

Authors

David R. Oran
Dirk KUTSCHER
Hitoshi Asaeda
Ken Calvert

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