Proposal: UDNA Research Testbed Collaboration between IUST and Sirraya Labs

Dear Head of Department,

I am writing as the Founder and Chair of the W3C UDNA Community Group and
lead researcher at Sirraya Labs, an intersection lab unifying advances in
networking, decentralized identity, and distributed systems.

We are pioneering research on *UDNA (Universal DID-Native Addressing)*, a
next-generation networking primitive that reimagines internet architecture.
Unlike traditional IP-based networks, UDNA leverages *Decentralized
Identifiers (DIDs)* as first-class primitives for addressing and routing.
This enables *privacy-preserving, secure, and identity-native communication
at the network layer*, opening new horizons for research in networking,
security, and distributed systems.

This research has already gained recognition in international standards
communities:

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   *W3C UDNA Community Group* (Chair): Universal DID-Native Addressing
   (UDNA) | Community Groups | Discover W3C groups | W3C
   <https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/did-native-addr/>
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   *Technical Review Paper*: published on Zenodo: Universal DID-Native
   Addressing (UDNA) Technical Specification.
   <https://zenodo.org/records/17116428>

We envision *IUST as a pioneering academic partner* in advancing UDNA
research through a dedicated *UDNA testbed*. The proposed collaboration
would enable faculty and students to explore identity-native networking in
practice, contribute to international standards, and establish IUST as a
leader in this emerging research frontier.

*Proposed Testbed Collaboration*

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   *Scale:* 10–20 nodes, representing a small DID-native overlay network.
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   *Capabilities:*
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      Simulate DID-based routing and message propagation.
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      Experiment with privacy-preserving and secure communication protocols