WIwillforce·Apr 1, 2025Submission
Show HN: Zocket – Zero-Configuration Sockets
Ever since I read about RINA [1] some ten-odd years ago, I've always thought that this was the future standard of the Internet. I kept track of some implementations [2][3][4] but they've since been overtaken by developments in TCP/IP, most notable (for me) among which is QUIC.
I've come to believe that rather than starting from a clean slate, we need to work within TCP/IP's constraints to bring us piecemeal from "rough consensus and running code" to sound networking theory.
Zocket is my contribution to this effect. It's what you get when you marry a sockets API to zero-configuration networking--specify apps by their own names rather than their host's addresses. It's pretty rough, but the happy path mostly works.
I can imagine use cases for this in cluster networking, especially in the cloud. But I'll probably start with something smaller,
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like how to backup pictures from a smartphone to a home server despite the latter being configured with DHCP.
Happy April Fools' Day!
[1] https://www.martingeddes.com/think-tank/network-architecture...
[2] https://github.com/IRATI/stack
[3] https://github.com/rlite/rlite
[4] https://github.com/dstaesse/ouroboros