I don't see how its fundamentally a different concept. Named-data networking is a loose category of proposals, doesn't necessarily need routers to change.
Obviously you can't tell that other guy what to do but if IPFS doesn't inform that other effort then I think they are going to be wasting time.
Anyway I hope you will very seriously look at the various different approaches to NDN (with several different names) as a loose category and consider attempting to recruit from or merge with or interface with other efforts (there are many similar systems) and possibly expanding the scope a little if necessary.
We really do need a new internet.
Also what do you think of operational transformations, do they relate in any way to IPFS or future IPFS capabilities?
Yeah, I'm all for consolidating efforts. I'll be looking into NDN more. Though there's only so many minutes in a day-- if you can help me figure out who's great there to talk to, drop me a line juan@ipfs.io (other than Van Jacobson, ofc. will go talk to him at some point.)
On OTs: yep! you can implement OTs on a merkle dag trivially, so you can build files from OTs. So! apps can use OTs as first class data structures and store directly onto IPFS.
Obviously you can't tell that other guy what to do but if IPFS doesn't inform that other effort then I think they are going to be wasting time.
Anyway I hope you will very seriously look at the various different approaches to NDN (with several different names) as a loose category and consider attempting to recruit from or merge with or interface with other efforts (there are many similar systems) and possibly expanding the scope a little if necessary.
We really do need a new internet.
Also what do you think of operational transformations, do they relate in any way to IPFS or future IPFS capabilities?