What is Scaffold?
Scaffold (Service-Centric Architecture For Flexible Object Localization and Distribution) is a new network architecture that argues for directly addressing (potentially distributed or replicated) objects or services, rather than hosts, and more tightly coupling naming and routing. Rather than employing ad-hoc techniques at various network layers, Scaffold directly focuses on handling the many kinds of churn — from failures, planned maintenance, load balancing, workload migration, and physical mobility — that arise in networked services.
