This Recommendation describes the requirements and capabilities of name mapping and resolution for information-centric networking (ICN) to achieve high performance such as low latency and scalability for a large number of named objects in IMT-2020. The specific scope of this Recommendation is as follows:

• service requirements of name mapping and resolution;

• functional requirements of name mapping and resolution;

• capabilities of name mapping and resolution.

The general requirements and capabilities of name mapping and resolution are listed in [ITU-T Y.3031], [ITU-T Y.3032] and [ITU-T Y.3033] and are out of the scope of this Recommendation.