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Welcome to the first ACM Information Centric Networking (ICN) conference! After a successful series of ACM SIGCOMM ICN and IEEE INFOCOM NOMEN workshops showing a growing interest from the broader networking community, we initiated this new series of ACM conferences starting in 2014 and are very happy to welcome you to the first ACM ICN conference in Paris.

Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come (Victor Hugo) and ICN with its concepts of providing access to named data as a first-order network service, of providing object- instead of connection-based security, and of enabling ubiquitous data replication and requestor anonymity is one of those ideas. Efforts in different international research projects have explored ICN benefits for different application areas such as mobile communications, video streaming and distribution, Internet of Things, and data-center communications. ICN is recognized as a major networking research area that relates to established networking research topics such as naming, network security, transport mechanisms, and caching, and has fueled relevant new research work in all of those areas.

Starting a new conference series is always associated with challenges. We are particularly happy to report that ICN14 attracted 97 paper submissions, out of which the TPC selected 17 papers for oral presentation and 8 short papers for poster presentations. We are also delighted by the number of received demo proposals and accepted 10 demonstrations for the program. As the first conference in this new series, the program also includes a full day of tutorials to make the audience familiar with the fundamental concepts as well as the frontier of efforts in this new area. The program is completed by an industrial panel discussion with renowned experts from the networking community. We hope that ICN14 will contribute to further advancing the state of the art in networking in general and in ICN in particular.