[nambit]

It's not as easy as "improving" existing protocols. Look at the ipv4 -> ipv6 mess. And even then ipv6 suffers from issues that are tied to how networks were built, etc. See this great article: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

If I'm building something to give connectivity to dog tags, why not do something simpler?

[cafxx]

Because something simple already exists, for this very use-case (and apparently, in the case of LoRa, with better range)?

I'm personally rooting for this to bomb badly.