“In Reticulum, destinations are allowed to move around the network at will. This is very different from protocols such as IP, where an address is always expected to stay within the network segment it was assigned in. This limitation does not exist in Reticulum, and any destination is completely portable over the entire topography of the network, and can even be moved to other Reticulum networks than the one it was created in, and still become reachable. To update its reachability, a destination simply needs to send an announce on any networks it is part of. After a short while, it will be globally reachable in the network.”

“The ultimate aim of Reticulum is to allow anyone to be their own network operator, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks. Reticulum is not one network, it is a tool to build thousands of networks. Networks without kill-switches, surveillance, censorship and control. Networks that can freely interoperate, associate and disassociate with each other, and require no central oversight.”

“Reticulum does away with the idea of addresses and ports known from IP, TCP and UDP. Instead Reticulum uses the singular concept of destinations. Any application using Reticulum as its networking stack will need to create one or more destinations to receive data, and know the destinations it needs to send data to.

All destinations in Reticulum are _represented_ as a 16 byte hash. This hash is derived from truncating a full SHA-256 hash of identifying characteristics of the destination.”

Listening to this, since Apple has a decent sounding Siri Voice to read articles on iOS now.