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Information-centric networking (ICN) is a promising approach to networking that has the potential to provide better – more natural and more efficient – solutions for many of today’s important communication applications including but not limited to large-scale content distribution. This article describes the Network of Information (NetInf) architecture – a specific ICN approach that targets global-scale communication and supports many different types of networks and deployments, including traditional Internet access/core network configurations, data centers, as well as challenged and infrastructure-less networks. NetInf’s approach to connecting different technology and administrative domains into a single information-centric network is based on a hybrid name-based routing and name resolution scheme. In this article, we describe the most important requirements that motivated the NetInf design. We present an …