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glossary / FLIC

File-Like ICN Collections - the NDN/ICN community's manifest format for representing large objects as content-addressed collections of segments, so big data travels as a signed tree of named pieces.

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FLIC - The shelf: FLIC ships big objects as signed named pieces - the manifest instinct the bundle repeats

The shelf: FLIC ships big objects as signed named pieces - the manifest instinct the bundle repeats.

Etymology and backstory

an IRTF ICNRG draft tradition: once data is named and signed per-packet, large files need a manifest that names all their segments and carries authentication for the set - a Merkle-manifest pattern tuned for ICN's naming. FLIC is that pattern's standardized form.

Ecosystem

NDN repositories and file transfer tools; conceptually parallel to IPFS's UnixFS DAGs and BitTorrent v2's per-file Merkle trees - every content-addressed world reinvents the manifest.

In codexproof

cited as the inherited pattern behind bundling - the envelope's bundle is codexproof's manifest moment: a self-contained, completeness- checkable set of named (cid-addressed) pieces. The lineage acknowledgment matters at ICNP specifically: the room that standardized FLIC will recognize the shape and should hear it credited.

"FLIC is how the ICN world ships big things as signed sets of named pieces - our bundle is the same manifest instinct, with provenance types on the edges."
References: IRTF ICNRG, File-Like ICN Collections draft (the paper's flic citation).

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