I note that patents/"Intellectual Property" wasn't mentioned in the article at all. I suspect, based on the participants mostly being corporations, that the whole thing will be covered by patents.
I think TCP/IP as non-patented, slipped by the major corporations. A protocol anyone can implement, and where the "client" and "server" are pretty hard to tell apart, is disadvantageous to market encumbents, and to surveillance agencies. For instance, nobody can charge fees for implementing TCP/IP. Nobody can license content servers. Nobody can accurately attribute a packet to a legally-responsible entity ("one neck to wring").
The protocol to replace TCP/IP will be patent encumbered, it will make a complete distinction between "client" and "server", it will be centrally routed, it will be subject to surveillance, and servers will be licensed, and costly. If NDN doesn't do some or all of these things, it's already dead.
