IP addressing has hierarchy, your scheme doesn’t 🐶🐾🫡
Discussion
What if you negotiate a 4 digit regional pubkey-prefix with your nearest relay and then POW that prefix before you submit a key to the relay.
That would provide the same hierarchy space as 255.255
Simples.
IPv6 has a much larger space, and all of them (4&6) are using CIDR that has many more layers of hierarchy 🐶🐾🫡
Related, wdyt?
Looks great, but still focuses on a small scale WAN/LAN deployments. I hope they’ll develop a more adoptable spec that is scalable beyond that. 🐶🐾🫡
You could make a radio mesh layer without touching the internet, where if any one make the wan connection, the rest get a route to the internet. You can scale radio as far & wide as you want 👀
Not true, radio has a very, very, very limited bandwidth. Internet pass petabytes of data every second, there simply not enough spectrum in usable radio space to accomplish this. 🐶🐾🫡
I’m talking connectivity, not bandwidth. Although the network can keep a connection open via radio with just a few bits/sec.
“Efficient link establishment
Total bandwidth cost of setting up a link is only 3 packets, totalling 297 bytes
Low cost of keeping links open at only 0.44 bits per second”
https://reticulum.network/manual/whatis.html#what-does-reticulum-offer
Also, from the wiki posted within the issue:
“Data rates up to 347 Mbit/s are achieved only with the maximum of four spatial streams using one 16 MHz-wide channel.”
“It uses the 802.11a/g specification that is down sampled to provide 26 channels, each of them able to provide 100 kbit/s throughput. It can cover a one-kilometer radius.”