Summary

Recommendation ITU-T H.643.1 describes the functional architecture for the deployment of information-centric networks (DICNs), including functional entities, reference points and service control flows. It also describes the required DICN capabilities. This architecture can be used to flexibly support the deployment of any particular information-centric network instance and the coexistence of multiple ICN instances on top of one physical network. It also facilitates the inter-operation between different ICN instances.