Information-Centric Networking (ICN) advocates a clean-slate redesign of the Internet network layer through a major shift from a host-to-host communication model to a content-based one. Hence ideally, current ICN propositions and implementations, for instance NDN (Named Data Networking), should replace the IP layer. Indeed none of these already provide a full-fledged solution, due to the big challenges that their deployment at a global scale implies. Nevertheless ICN’s ambitious goal could be a plausible short-term step for networks at the Internet’s borders, where several layer-2 technologies populate the Internet of Things ecosystem. Those domains still need an in-depth analysis of the potential of the ICN solutions as well as of the concrete mechanisms to deploy them. Thus in the following, we’ve sketched out our research path to find out common layer-2 requirements for the future Internet’s network-layer.