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Elijah-Bodden/Membrane: A robust, minimal-server-interaction API for peer routing in the browser

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Membrane is a protocol that takes WebRTC signalling to the browser, creating living peer networks. With minimal server-based bootstrapping, it can make self-sufficient peer-to-peer networks that can operate without servers. Any member browser can create a connection to any other by signaling across its peers, avoiding clumsy, centralized signaling servers. The network also self-stabilizes, minmizing its diameter and collectively tracking its status and topology through peer "gossip". The library is designed to be as agnostic as possible, making no-installation web clients for distributed chat, hosting, torrenting, computing, and so much more easy to implement! Membrane leverages RTCPeerConnection's agnosticism about signalling. You could just as well communicate ICE connection data through smoke signals or quantum teleportation as through a standard signalling server. In many cases, signaling servers are an unreliable and vulnerable approach. Membrane attempts to implement a better alt

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