@py2toz Well, what about plain old IP protocol?

It does not depend on the media (there are wifi, ethernet, fiber, microwave...) and it can do dynamic routing (we use it every day in the form of BGP, but others are possible).

Even the old HAM packet radio supports IP over AX25 over HF or VHF / UHF.

@marsik That's a fair point. But as far as I can tell, Reticulum goes a step further by implementing cryptography at the network layer by default. Not to mention the multiple encapsulation every time we traverse different interfaces (LoRa then IP then serial then LoRa again...)

So it's a matter of taste and use cases, as always (hence the "something similar" in my original post).

@py2toz Yep, it is a matter of taste and a specific use case.

Reticulum also uses encapsulation, how else would it go through all the various underlying protocols like LoRa or Wifi.

IP is rather heavy (even though lwIP exists) and the existing routing protocols are tailored towards faster links with higher MTUs.

But the cryptography address and no record of packet sender that Reticulum uses are interesting concepts for sure.

@marsik Sorry, I meant that IP would require different software independently implemented from each other for encapsulation, whereas Reticulum bridges a number of interfaces with encapsulation implemented within a single, opinionated framework.

Still a good fall back.