UC San Diego is one of eight universities partnering on one of the three new projects. It's called Named Data Networking-Next Phase (NDN-NP), led by UCLA computer science professor Lixia Zhang, and the proposed architecture would be based on named data rather than numerically addressed hosts that are the basis of today's Internet Protocol-based architecture. Said Zhang: "We are in the planning stage of establishing an industry consortium grounded in an open innovation model that aims to limit proprietary intellectual property claims on core elements of the architecture." The project is partnering with Open mHealth, a non-profit, patient-centric health ecosystem, among other consortium members, and the applications driving the project will center on two national priorities: health IT, and cyber-physical systems. The UC San Diego research will be undertaken by KC Claffy (pictured at left), a CSE scientist and member of the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) based in the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), who was already collaborating with Zhang and others on the first-generation NDN project that began in 2010. Admits CSE's Marzullo at NSF's CNS Division: "These projects are just the beginning of what it would take to create a full-scale Future Internet." To read further, please visit http://cse.ucsd.edu/node/2533.