  Information-centric networking (ICN) has long been advocating for radical
changes to the IP-based Internet. However, the upgrade challenges that this
entails have hindered ICN adoption. To break this loop, the POINT project
proposed a hybrid, IP-over-ICN, architecture: IP networks are preserved at the
edge, connected to each other over an ICN core. This exploits the key benefits
of ICN, enabling individual network operators to improve the performance of
their IP-based services, without changing the rest of the Internet. We provide
an overview of POINT and outline how it improves upon IP in terms of
performance and resilience. Our focus is on the successful trial of the POINT
prototype in a production network, where real users operated actual IP-based
applications.

Networking and Internet Architecture