Since I've been in the information-centric networking group at #IETF115, I'd like to add that this kind of tech would be a good complement to the small web notion.
The basic principle is that you're not looking to speak to a server, but asking the network where a piece of information is. So if my machine has already received Aral's post, then it's as legitimate a source of this post as his own, etc. Load spreads out.
