every day i wake up and think Afficher plus
@bob @garbados I see no reason why TCP/IP can't work if you have a reliable always-connected network, but it's not really designed for store-and-forward traffic with potentially days of latency (which you might be dealing with if you remove all infrastructure).
Worth noting that AMPRNet is a TCP/IP subnet (44.0.0.0/8) specifically for amateur radio usage, where commercial usage is forbidden. However, TCP/IP overhead over 300 baud HF backhaul is not pretty. Even 9600 baud between cities is bad.
@garbados @bob Some protocols underneath IP may well have to change (I'm not particularly familiar with that layer though), some protocols above IP will almost certainly have to change (to fight spam while discouraging centralization - note that there have been changes to protocols like SMTP to fight spam over the years, but they've promoted centralization instead of discouraging it).
@bob @bhtooefr can i spitball about dns for a sec?
i've been working on a tool that makes it easy for users to specify their own domain names, and to acquire domain lists from friends. it yields a kind of intentional web with a topology based on our personal relationships. the current implementation does it by messing with your hostfile which i'm inclined to believe is A Bad Idea but i'm enamoured by the notion of an intentional web.
@garbados @bob @bhtooefr it's been a while since I did it, and only briefly. Plus I'm on a phone now.
But I think this Blog post explains how to do it. It's part of Tor.
https://www.grepular.com/Transparent_Access_to_Tor_Hidden_Services
@ebel @bob @bhtooefr i’ll have to look into that. is there a project or codebase that does this?