Repo: Application Agnostic and Oblivious In-Network Data Store

As a specific application within the broadly-defined realm of metaverse, NDN Workspace is a serverless collaborative tool that enables multiple users to jointly edit shared files. Our experience from NDN Workspace trial deployment suggests that such decentralized apps can benefit greatly from persistent data availability. This paper reports the design of Repo, a in-network replicated data store which can automatically stores application contents of authorized users. We illustrate how NDN Workspace’s data-centric design, which is built on Named Data Networking (NDN), enables Repo to provide persistent data availability in an application agnostic and oblivious manner.