I should read the specs, but since it's such a foundational issue maybe someone who knows could respond briefly? the problem with a flat addressing space is that it requires every intermediate node to have state about every address, or perform a costly discovery mechanism for those it doesn't know about. is there a clever answer to this?
Iroh 1.0
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Re: Iroh 1.0
#12The "address lookup" strategy is really interesting, especially how it uses actual DNS: https://docs.iroh.computer/concepts/address-lookup
Re: Iroh 1.0
#13Doesn't it seem odd to have "Pricing" for a protocol that's meant to serve a similar function to IP addresses? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
As others have already mentioned, iroh the core library and protocol is fully open source. But to finance the development of it, we offer additional services to make it easier to deploy and run it, especially for larger or more specialized use caes.
Congrats for the launch, seems to have matured a bunch and Iroh gotten a bunch of neat additions since I last looked! You even managed to get 1.0 out the door before go-ipfs / Kubo ;)
> But to finance the development of it, we offer additional services to make it easier to deploy and run it, especially for larger or more specialized use caes.
Interesting (and somewhat proven) idea to finance it, smart :)
Did you guys started doing this already on a case-by-case basis and have some experience of it already, and if so what are the common things you typically help out with exactly? I'm just curious what sort of things a company who'd use a protocol like that might need help with, that they wouldn't have experience with in-house, since they're going down a P2P road already (assuming that, maybe maybe need help with greenfield projects)?
Re: Iroh 1.0
#14hey, I helped make this :) will try to answer questions where I can
how can i make it give me zen-inspired life advice?
Re: Iroh 1.0
#15hey, I helped make this :) will try to answer questions where I can
This looks very interesting. I’m not sure I understand this, but it seems to me like it competes (or is in the same space as) both Tailscale and zeromq/nanomsg via the protocols? I think it would be nice to have a comparison page to make it easier to position it (I didn’t find one).
Re: Iroh 1.0
#16I am one of the iroh developers.
A question that frequently comes up: when will iroh support webrtc, or BLE, or LoRa, or ...
Iroh as of now supports only IPv4, IPv6 and relay transports out of the box. There is such a large variety of potentially interesting transports out there that we can't support all of them without turning the codebase into an unmaintainable maze of feature flags.
But we have added the ability to implement custom transports. That way your transport implementation can live in a completely separate crate.
Existing experimental custom transports include Tor, Nym and BLE. https://github.com/mcginty/iroh-ble-transport
Here is how custom transports work under the hood: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-0-97-0-custom-transports...
Re: Iroh 1.0
#17hey, I helped make this :) will try to answer questions where I can
Does this solve the problem of internet segmentation due to politcs?
For example: dns control, tls certification bans (just this month both let’s encrypt and globalsign started revoking Russian certificates), once google starts really complaining about https it gets ugly.
Russia aside, anyone else is closely watching (europe, brics, what have you)
Re: Iroh 1.0
#18I should read the specs, but since it's such a foundational issue maybe someone who knows could respond briefly? the problem with a flat addressing space is that it requires every intermediate node to have state about every address, or perform a costly discovery mechanism for those it doesn't know about. is there a clever answer to this?
The secret is that iroh still uses IPs under the hood :)
But with QUIC, your connections aren't bound to your four-tuple, your connection can migrate from e.g. WiFi to Cellular with only a small blip/hiccup.
And with QUIC multipath, you can have multiple four-tuples "active" at the same time. iroh uses e.g. a "real" IP path mainly, with a websocket-based HTTPS path via relay servers as the backup (e.g. in case UDP is blocked).
Re: Iroh 1.0
#19Iroh has been amazing to work with and the engineers are so nice in the discord channel. The pragmatic approach to making p2p just work has been easy to understand. Their YouTube channel has great content too. Congrats on v1!
Re: Iroh 1.0
#20So what has the reception been like with IETF?