the NDN team's 2024 move up the stack - signed, named data objects for web and metaverse interoperability that need no NDN network underneath: the object carries its name, signature, and key locator, and any transport may deliver it.
The delta: SWO's key-locator chain answers who signed; typed links whose targets are content-ids also commit to what each object derived from.
Etymology and backstory
Yu, Ma, Patil, Kocaogullar, Zhang, Burke, Kutscher, and Zhang (2024) - the lab that built NDN conceding the forwarding plane to reach the application layer. Their stated open problems - revocation, capabilities, agents - read as a to-do list the codexproof paper answers a slice of.
Ecosystem
the UCLA-IRL lineage and the ICNRG orbit; the closest prior substrate to the paper's evidence object, written by the people organizing the AgentNet workshop.
In codexproof
Related Work names the delta - Secure Web Objects chain names to signers; our links also commit to derivation. An SWO's key-locator chain answers WHO signed a named object; the paper's typed links, whose 32-byte targets are parent content-ids, additionally commit to WHAT it derived from, fusing Merkle lineage with authorship. And the mandatory fail-closed freshness of the SRL answers their named open problem of revocation.