4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi,

Information Centric Networking (ICN) has shown possibili-ties to solve several problems of the Internet. At the same time, some problems need to be tackled in order to advance this promising architecture. In this paper we address two of the problems, namely routing and content caching. For the routing, we introduce the Potential Based Routing (PBR) to achieve several design goals such as availability, adapt-ability, diversity, and robustness. In addition, we exam-ine the performance of a random caching policy which can be a promising candidate for ICN. The integrated system which combines the PBR and a caching policy is named the Cache Aware Target idenTification (CATT). Simulation re-sults demonstrate that the PBR with replications located on less than 1 % of total nodes can achieve a near optimal rout-ing performance (close to the shortest path routing) even though a request message is randomly forwarded