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feat(groove): add Paper 4 — The Protocol Factory
"The Protocol Factory: Malleable, Ductile Protocol Creation via
Formally Verified Typed Overlays"
Fourth paper in the series. Speculative tone, grounded in running code.
Key arguments:
- Protocol creation currently costs years and millions. The convergence
of Idris2 (2021) + Zig (2023) + IPv6 (2024) reduces it to hours.
- OPSM lifecycle (mint→provision→configure→harness) IS protocol creation
- Malleable: types reshapable without breaking (structural subtyping)
- Ductile: stretchable from localhost to WAN without modification
- Why incumbents won't build it: disintermediating by design (table
covering Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon)
- Typed overlay network: grows with panel installations, zero infrastructure
- Broadcast solved: Typed Broadcast Filter for discovery, TFR for connections
- Encryption solved: TLS ALPN ("grv6" token) negotiates types before tunnel
- Unsolved: schema evolution, ABI registry governance, malicious capabilities,
traffic analysis
- Speculative: end of protocol scarcity, protocols as libraries,
parallel protocol layer inside TCP/IP
Closing: "The typed overlay is not a proposal. It is running code.
Whether the world wants it is a question we cannot answer with a proof."
Targets cs.NI/cs.SE/cs.DC, subsequently HotNets/NSDI/ACM Surveys
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>1 parent f07f214 commit 3b91271
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