Re: Introduction and update on Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA)

Kindly find attached some console output from the demo , this would help
how it is to be implemented

On Sat, 20 Sept 2025 at 06:40, Amir Hameed <amsaalegal@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Manu,
>
> Thank you for the warm welcome and for taking the time to look at the
> work—much appreciated!
>
> At a high level, the minimal viable implementation of UDNA would focus on *addressing
> and routing based on cryptographic identities (DIDs) rather than network
> locations*. This doesn’t require building a full alternative to TCP/IP or
> UDP, but rather an overlay layer on top of existing transport protocols in
> a *transport-agnostic* way.
>
> For example, we could use UDP with a custom reliability layer as the
> transport, but the packets would *replace IP addresses with DIDs*. Route
> discovery could leverage a Kademlia DHT. When sending a packet, the sender
> would include only a DID, which is permanent, while the underlying IP
> endpoints can change to reflect the latest reachable location. DID
> resolution would be handled in the *UDNA packet header*, which has its
> own wire format containing fields relevant to DIDs rather than IPs—this
> could include DID type, DID length, DID bytes, RouteHint, KeyHint, Nonce,
> and Signature.
>
> On Sat, 20 Sept 2025 at 06:15, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM Amir Hameed <amsaalegal@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > UDNA is an initiative currently incubated under the W3C CG repo
>> (w3c-cg/udna) with the mission of establishing a framework for treating
>> Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as first-class network primitives. Instead
>> of addressing nodes by location (e.g. IP), UDNA proposes a model where
>> endpoints are addressed by cryptographic identity.
>>
>> Hi Amir, welcome to the group! The work that you are doing is
>> fascinating and I took a look at your website and goals.
>>
>> What do you think is the minimal viable implementation of the work you
>> are discussing? Is it a new type of router? Is it an alternative
>> network protocol to TCP/IP or UDP? What would be the minimum thing
>> that could be built that uses UDNA?
>>
>> -- manu
>>
>> --
>> Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>> https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
>>
>