Summary

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3071 specifies the requirements and capabilities of data aware networking (DAN) to realize the use cases and scenarios described in Supplement 35 to the ITU-T Y-series Recommendations, which are expected to be major applications/services provided on DAN. One of the objectives reflecting emerging requirements for future networks is data awareness as specified in Recommendation ITU-T Y.3001. DAN is expected to have capabilities optimized to handle enormous amounts of data and to enable users to access desired data safely, easily, quickly and accurately, regardless of their location. DAN can be described as networking whose central aim is retrieving information, i.e., information centric networking (ICN).