  Metaverse applications desire to communicate with semantically identified
objects among a diverse set of cyberspace entities, such as cameras for
collecting images from, sensors for sensing environment, and users
collaborating with each other, all could be nearby or far away, in a timely and
secure way. However, supporting the above function faces networking challenges.
Today's metaverse implementations are, by and large, use secure transport
connections to communicate with cloud servers instead of letting participating
entities communicate directly. In this paper, we use the design and
implementation of NDN Workspace, a web-based, multi-user collaborative app to
showcase a new way to networking that supports many-to-many secure data
exchanges among communicating entities directly. NDN Workspace users establish
trust relations among each other, exchange URI-identified objects directly, and
can collaborate through intermittent connectivity, all in the absence of cloud
servers. Its data-centric design offers an exciting new approach to metaverse
app development.
