AORP — Adaptive Oblivious Routing Protocol

AORP (Adaptive Oblivious Routing Protocol) defines how routing decisions are made without revealing why they were taken. It is an abstract, protocol-level model—never an implementation, network, or library.

Purpose

AORP describes a next-hop decision model with emphasis on:

• Minimizing leakage of routing information.
• Avoiding observable deterministic choices.
• Adapting to network conditions without exposing raw metrics.
• Allowing multiple variants and per-application profiles.

Scope

• Defines: allowed inputs, information constraints, expected outputs, tunable parameters, and conceptual variants.
• Does not define: transport, cryptography, identity, node discovery, packet formats, or implementation language.

Key components

• Neighbor Set (abstract candidates)
• Metric Abstraction Layer (coarse/opaque metrics)
• Entropy Injection (controlled randomness)
• Policy Constraints (external rules)
• Decision Output (single next hop)

Documents

• SPEC.md — Full specification
• ARCHITECTURE.md — Conceptual model
• DECISION_MODEL.md — Decision flow
• PARAMETERS.md — Tunable parameters
• VARIANTS.md — Protocol variants
• THREAT_MODEL.md — Threat model
• PSEUDOCODE.md — Abstract pseudocode
• DIAGRAMS.md — Mermaid diagrams

License

• Documentation: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
• Future PoCs (if any): AGPLv3

AORP defines how routing decisions are made without revealing why they were made.

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