P2P? Why and how.
A recent proposal over P2P adoption instead of hosted services triggered a need to flesh the motivations for it. That proposal summarized it thus:
P2P protocols give user more anonymity, freedom & control over their data than any existing alternatives.
Our Requirements:
Cross Platform (mobile & desktop)
Group chat
file sharing
Voice / video calls
Akshay Mon 16 May 2022 12:02PM
I would assume that any anonymity issue that's present with ipv6 would also be present with ipv4.
Karthik Fri 6 Oct 2023 4:41PM
There needs to be more discussion around P2P now due to compliance with the DPDPA
Karthik Thu 2 Nov 2023 11:22AM
Life is Tetris Fri 22 Dec 2023 6:16PM
Applicable to P2P is https://webxdc.org and a repository of apps served at xstore@testrun.org from the magnificient minds behind https://delta.chat who had a blog post saying https://briarproject.org was following the WebXDC work.
Karthik Thu 17 Oct 2024 12:50PM
https://simplex.chat/ sounds reasonably good p2p approach
Life is Tetris · Sun 8 May 2022 6:09PM
IPv6 suggests to use MAC IDs for IPv6 addresses, which sounds reliable but not anonymous. If anonymity isn't a hard requirement of P2P, OK I guess. Not sure it is feasible if left to corporates, though. 2G is still around more than a decade after 3G! COBOL too. Difficult to stop legacy support, looks like.