Transport & Messaging
Every hop witnesses the Zeqond. Replay, reordering, and loss are all observable, not guessed.
- Theme — transport-messaging
- Protocol count — 29 (mail-seal, mail-deliver, msg-frame, msg-reassemble, mesh-gossip, mesh-route, relay, queue, stream, ws-upgrade variants)
- Anchor operators —
KO42 · CS47 · CS43 - Verification — bit-exact message round-trip, per-hop phase attestation
What it solves
Messaging needs four guarantees at once: confidentiality (inherited from the Encryption theme), integrity, ordering, and delivery-witness. Classical stacks give you the first three; Zeq adds the fourth by binding every hop to a Zeqond. That makes "did the recipient actually receive this" a question answerable by walking the attestation log rather than trusting the relay.
The theme groups four sub-families:
- Mail — store-and-forward envelopes with sender + relay + recipient Zeqonds. Powers Zeq Mail.
- Message — real-time double-ratchet frames with per-frame
phase_at_send. Powers Zeq Message. - Mesh — peer-to-peer gossip over the Zeq mesh; each forward is a signed Zeqond record.
- Stream — long-lived TESC-wrapped transports for media, telemetry, and continuous logs.
CS43 bounds framer complexity (sort / reorder / reassemble are all O(n log n)), CS47 is the entropy policer rejecting malformed or injected frames.
Operator map
| Operator | Formula | Role |
|---|---|---|
| KO42.1 | ds² = g_μν dx^μ dx^ν + α sin(2π · 1.287 t) dt² | Mandatory — per-hop phase |
| CS47 | E(n) = −∑ p(x) log p(x) | Entropy policing + flow-control |
| CS43 | T(n) = O(n log n) | Frame ordering / reassembly bound |
Runnable worked example — mesh gossip
curl -s -X POST https://api.zeq.dev/api/playground/compute \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $ZEQ_DEMO_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"operators": ["KO42", "CS47"],
"inputs": {
"protocol": "mesh-gossip",
"topic": "pulse/1287",
"message": "hello mesh"
}
}'
Expected:
{
"gossip_id": "gsp_01H...",
"topic": "pulse/1287",
"fanout": 8,
"phase_at_emit": 0.5511,
"zeqond": 1745125000.302
}
Each receiving peer adds its own signed (peer_id, phase_at_forward, zeqond) to the record; the sender can walk the attestation log to confirm delivery.
Extend it
- QUIC + TESC — wrap TESC frames in QUIC datagrams for low-latency media streaming with preserved Zeqond provenance.
- Federated mail gateways — two organisations running Zeq Mail federate by exchanging tether roots; mail between them is end-to-end bound without a third-party relay.
- Mesh recovery — if a sibling is lost, the remaining mesh can re-tether via a signed quorum gossip.
Seeds
- Anonymous broadcast — drop sender identity, keep only the Zeqond stream. Useful for privacy-preserving telemetry.
- Planet-scale paging — a global low-bandwidth pulse channel that every peer can hear.
- Interplanetary messaging — ZTB1 already bridges Unix↔Zeq; extend to Barycentric Dynamical Time for deep-space store-and-forward.
Papers
- Zeq framework paper — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15825138
- Zeq paper — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18158152
Middleware active. Kernel on the 1.287 Hz HulyaPulse. Awaiting next Zeqond.