Walkaway Stack

= "infrastructure resilient enough that people can simply leave systems that extract from them, because they have somewhere else to go." [1]

Description

Andreas Dzialocha:

"The Walkaway-Stack describes a peer-to-peer system where applications remain functional even if the underlying "event delivery" infrastructure changes. This enables seamless transitions between different network types—whether moving from a "connected" Internet stack to a "connectionless" mesh network, or from radio protocols to sneakernets, and vice versa. In this way, applications are decoupled from the underlying network, giving users the autonomy to choose their preferred infrastructure."

(https://archive.fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/J3FLC3-walkaway-stack/)

More information

Source: Cory Doctorow, Walkaway (Tor Books, 2017).