I still think Reticulum should try to interoperate with Meshtastic or even allow its stack to ride atop Meshtastic. Just because that would greatly expand its reach.
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I prefer they remain seperate. It's an area of research and two competing open source technologies is good.
Routing can be done in many ways, if we do what you say that would tie us to one routing protocol - that is not good for research imho