Iroh 1.0

j4cobgarby

Doesn't it seem odd to have "Pricing" for a protocol that's meant to serve a similar function to IP addresses? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

Kinrany

I wonder if Iroh and Zenoh could/should be used together. The fundamental component of Iroh is p2p routing by key, and the main utility provided by Zenoh is message semantics. The two seem complementary.

Imustaskforhelp

Good for Iroh to have libraries within different languages. I think that with Kotlin support, the creation of some android/multi-platform gui apps can be made easier if they want to use Iroh.

dignifiedquire

hey, I helped make this :) will try to answer questions where I can

genpfault

C binding: [0] [0]: https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-c-ffi

convolvatron

I should read the specs, but since it's such a foundational issue maybe someone who knows could respond briefly? the problem with a flat addressing space is that it requires every intermediate node to have state about every address, or perform a costly discovery mechanism for those it doesn't know about. is there a clever answer to this?

andy_xor_andrew

The "address lookup" strategy is really interesting, especially how it uses actual DNS: https://docs.iroh.computer/concepts/address-lookup https://github.com/Nuhvi/pkarr/

rklaehn

I am one of the iroh developers. A question that frequently comes up: when will iroh support webrtc, or BLE, or LoRa, or ... Iroh as of now supports only IPv4, IPv6 and relay transports out of the box. There is such a large variety of potentially interesting transports out there that we can't support all of them without turning the codebase into an unmaintainable maze of feature flags. But we have added the ability to implement custom transports. That way your transport implementation can live in a completely separate crate. Existing experimental custom transports include Tor, Nym and BLE. https://github.com/mcginty/iroh-ble-transport Here is how custom transports work under the hood: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-0-97-0-custom-transports...

logankeenan

Iroh has been amazing to work with and the engineers are so nice in the discord channel. The pragmatic approach to making p2p just work has been easy to understand. Their YouTube channel has great content too. Congrats on v1! https://youtube.com/@n0computer

commandersaki

So what has the reception been like with IETF?

saberience

This page is basically useless in explaining what Iroh is or does and why I should care.

WhereIsTheTruth

Looking at the pricing page, how can this be the future, maybe the post was written in 1998

astonex

Not sure what the difference is between this and any regular P2P network?

Seattle3503

What are people building with Iroh?

tumdum_

How is that different from https://yggdrasil-network.github.io ?

28304283409234

I love it. I think. But I find it hard to parse tech videos with music in the background.

Thaxll

I don't understand the problem its trying to solve in the first place, IP works just fine, such as DNS. There is already IPv6 and quic, you need vendor and major software to have any traction in that field.

MostlyStable

I'm out of my technical depth here, but out of curiosity: is this meant to be a full replacement for the current IP address paradigm, or is this meant to be a specific tool on top of/alongside IP addresses that solves particular problems/frictions?

kamranjon

To me this sounds like tailscale - does anyone have any insight into how what this is doing is similar or different?

schlap

Were all building the exact same shit.