Re: [icnrg] ICNRG progress

Ken Calvert <calvert@netlab.uky.edu> Tue, 10 March 2020 01:41 UTC

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Dear ICNRG -

I recently read the CCNx semantics RFC.  I was a bit surprised to find nothing in it about "referential transparency" - the idea that interests for the same name should always return the same (content) bits.  That (no stated position) is understandable for ICN as a whole, but I expected that specific protocols would have some kind of statement about it (I think NDN requires it, but I'm not up on the latest NDN specs or code).

So, a question:  Is referential transparency a property of CCNx, or is it explicitly left up to the publisher, or what?  Or put another way, what, if anything, is a requestor entitled to assume about the result of different interests for the same name?

Thanks for any help.  And apologies if this is a dumb or non-useful question.

Ken