  This paper presents a proposition for informationcentric networking (ICN)
that lies outside the typical trajectory of aiming for a wholesale replacement
of IP as the internetworking layer of the Internet. Instead, we propose that a
careful exploitation of key ICN benefits, expanding previously funded ICN
efforts, will enable individual operators to improve the performance of their
IP-based services along many dimensions. Alongside the main motivation for our
work, we present an early strawman architecture for such an IP-over-ICN
proposition, which will ultimately be implemented and trialed in a recently
started H2020 research effort.
