[codethief]

> I remember watching many years ago a talk about a mesh network scheme where its users would unambiguously assign themselves addresses through some hash function.

Was it this one -> https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/ ?

Anyway, I fully agree with you. Assigning meaningless (and therefore collision-prone and spoofable) numbers to people/machines just seems like such an arcane idea in light of all the cryptographic advances people have made.

Whatever network I configure, I always need to worry about collisions or possible misconfigurations. Whether I set up some private VPN for myself and have to worry about potential spoofed IP packets from outside, or whether I connect to a corporate VPN from home and suddenly I can no longer ping 1.1.1.1 because their IT department couldn't be bothered to configure their routes correctly. It's insane.

[linsomniac]

I was thinking it might be https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

[tambourine_man]

Maybe it was cjdns, I don’t know, but I couldn’t find the particular talk on YouTube by that name.

But yes, someday, maybe we’ll laugh at the current state of things and the shortage of IPs.