[kyledrake]

CJDNS + IPFS to me is a grand vision for an idealized, completely distributed web. Combine that with some sort of distributed naming system (Namecoin, etc.), and you have a system that requires literally zero central authorities to operate. You just generate your own IPv6 addresses that are derived from a private key you generate yourself, and it works out of the box with all existing applications that support IPv6. No more IP registries (ARIN/APNIC/RIPE/etc), no more BGP. It's a network that can sustain itself by millions of individuals users routing internet traffic by peering directly with other users and datacenters.

As I understand it, there was some way to de-anonymize traffic to a certain extent (which is still far better than the current situation), and that turned off some of the "purists" which is just a shame. From a practical perspective, even with some issues, getting rid of BGP is more than enough of a benefit.

I can't express enough how brilliant CJDNS is to me, it's really a magical idea. Which is not to say there won't be potential issues (even potentially existentially damning issues), but wow. I'd love to see this project move forward and get more attention. It's the first thing I've seen that really made me think about how we could design a better internet than the one we have today.

FWIW, I'm already happy to just nominate the CJDNS project as a potential winner of this prize, already.

[le-mark]

Off topic: Hey Kyle, how are the Supporter Plans working out for neocities? It'd be great to see a blog post about how the sites doing!

[kyledrake]

I'll get to it soonish. Apologies, been busy this summer. :)

[AndyMcConachie]

Is the CJDNS protocol written up anywhere so it can be reviewed? I'm curious but don't see any explanation of its operation anywhere.

[tomfitz]

https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/Whitepape...

[cschmittiey]

tomfitz linked the whitepaper for you, and that's a great overview of the basics. However, some things have changed and I'm not sure the docs have updated with what's currently on GitHub.