- Status: Normative specification
- Protocol identifier:
cecr/1 - Supersedes: the original CECR design note (CECR draft 0)
CECR is a decentralized routing protocol for authenticated, partially connected peer-to-peer networks. It combines lease-based membership convergence, a one-dimensional ordering derived from membership extrema, and an XOR routing backbone.
CECR coordinates order identifiers. They do not measure latency, bandwidth, geographic distance, graph-hop distance, or physical network topology. Routing guarantees come from the overlay invariant in Section 6, not from the coordinate formula alone.