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+# Alamesh
+
+> "They who control the addresses, control the flow of information" - Robby, Neal Stephenson Villain
+
+Alanet is the private internet in which alamodians host services of eachother. Alamesh is the mesh on which that internet resides.
+
+This document describes some of the features of the mesh and implementation goals. The goals are essentially ripped off from [cjdns](https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns).
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+## Goals
+
+* IPv6 between nodes.
+* Allocating an IP address is the same as generating a crypto key pair (necessary? do we want to just make our own verison of ICANN?)
+* Peering is as easy establishing a tunnel with someone else.
+* ...?
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