Future / Post-v1 Design Explorations

Nothing in this directory is part of protocol v1. These are design explorations for directions the protocol is built to grow into — good ideas that are premature for a protocol at this stage. The live documents under docs/protocol/, docs/architecture/, and docs/design/ are authoritative; read these as forward-looking design notes.

Deferred explorations

• Media layer — media pacts, CDN economics. v1 keeps only content-addressed media tags + hash verification (in storage).
• Protocol versioning — negotiation/deprecation strategy. v1 keeps only the protocol_version tag.
• BitChat / BLE mesh — Bluetooth transport (Tier 0). Deferred by ADR 011; no iroh BLE transport exists yet.
• Post-quantum roadmap — ML-KEM/ML-DSA migration (self-assessed priority 3/10, ADR 012).
• Proof-of-storage alternatives — survey of verification schemes. The one adopted item (Merkle-proof challenges) lives in storage.
• Spam resistance — emergent-property analysis (not a spec).
• Monitoring & diagnostics — full observability suite. v1 keeps only a pact list + one health number.

History

• history/ — superseded planning docs (the live feed model is the sole current telling).