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There is SIP and XMPP, but they may be overconvoluted for what I am trying to achieve. Namely, I am not aiming at internet universality (no IPv4 sharing abomination built into the protocols).

I am looking at a modular set of protocols built mainly for IPv6.

The base: the "telephone number" would be ipv6:port. "Ringing" and video/audio streams setup would be done here. End to end encrytion right from the start (only manual key exchange, zero automatic, even before ringing).

On top, a "comfort protocol"(one level of indirection) for those changing ipv6, but not "accutely roaming", namely changing ipv6 while in a video/audio call: a "DynDNS" but simpler, more a "current IPv6:port of 'name' kind of thing", "address book with a drop of dynamic", "name@server" and you get the current ipv6:port. Unfortunately, it means "accounts" and real time updates. Of course, "server" could be a local/dns/ipv6. I am thinking zero password, only a public key.

For video/audio streams, I may not bother and go TCP. The main constraint would be the timing information shared among video/audio streams. No "internet weather" dynamic reconfiguration.

I even consider going "horribly horrible" for internet: idiotic binary based instead of text based protocols.




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