Scenarios · the channel spectrum
From fiber to paper — every medium the pillars can ride
No lookup, no TTL, no registry, no DNS has a fifth corollary: the protocol never talks to the network. Its entire work is a set of bytes plus one local computation — one SHA-256, one Ed25519 verification. Any medium that can move bytes carries the dual pillars. The Internet is simply the cheapest landlord available today; we are epibiotic on whoever transports bytes.
Three operating modes
| mode | freshness guarantee | applies when |
|---|---|---|
| live lease | 120 s window · reject on skew | minutes-level latency: fiber, cellular, ISM radio, Wi-Fi, light |
| lease residual | last known lease · age stated in the bytes | store-and-forward: satellite passes, delay-tolerant mesh (D4 decision vectors) |
| archival | no freshness check · seal fully verifiable | printed / carried / stored records: paper, postal, audit copies |
The spectrum
| channel | profile | mode |
|---|---|---|
| Fiber & cable | Gb/s · ms | live lease |
| Cellular radio — NB-IoT/LPWAN | kb/s · s | live lease |
| ISM free-band radio — LoRa | B/s–kb/s · s | live lease (broadcast) |
| Satellite store-and-forward | B/s · hours | lease residual |
| Underwater acoustics | B/s · s–min | lease residual → archival |
| Through-the-earth — mines | B/min | archival + residual |
| Visible light — LiFi/IR | kb/s–Mb/s · ms | live lease |
| NFC / RFID | kB · contact | live lease at contact |
| Paper — QR / barcode / plaintext | hours–years | archival |
| Postal / courier / pigeon | days | archival |
Ten channel files — full detail on GitHub
The current landlord. The cheapest host today; every mechanism runs unmodified.
The whitepaper verticals. One datagram carries WHERE and WHETHER; duty cycles bill bytes and the envelope was sized for it.
The aerial root: a beacon re-announces standing envelopes every 120 s. No carrier, no subscription — the gas root past the epibiotic host.
The satellite is a courier, not a network. The 120 s window is not expected to hold; the bytes say how old the claim is.
Radio dies in water. One acoustic frame carries one envelope — the dual pillars work where the Internet has never worked.
IP/DNS die at the mine entrance. Nothing else survives here; a 128-byte envelope rides magnetism, sound of rock, or the robot itself.
A beacon blinking a standing envelope is a lighthouse for trust.
Tap-to-verify: every physical touchpoint becomes a verification point.
Print the envelope. Any phone camera recovers the bytes; verification is local computation. The pillars run on paper.
RFC 1149 was implemented with nine pigeons. A 128-byte envelope is a lighter payload than an IP packet.