j_burke

Yes - Van is involved in NDN: http://named-data.net/project/participants/

While content distribution is a significant motivation, a fair amount of the current research is looking at benefits beyond caching: i.e., what do you get with web-style semantics at the lower layers, per-packet crypto, name--rather than host-based addressing, etc.

The participants are actually mostly universities. IP is discussed on the project site:

http://named-data.net/project/ndn-copyright-and-patents/ http://named-data.net/consortium/

The ideas are related, but the codebase is now separate: http://named-data.net/2014/08/25/first-public-release-ndn-fo...