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# intermodal: a 40' shipping container for the Internet
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## Manual
- [General ](#general )
- [Semantic Versioning ](#semantic-versioning )
- [Unstable Features ](#unstable-features )
- [Bittorrent ](#bittorrent )
- [BEP Support ](#bep-support )
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- [References ](#references )
- [BitTorrent ](#bittorrent )
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## General
### Semantic Versioning
Intermodal follows [semantic versioning ](https://semver.org/ ).
In particular:
- v0.0.X: Breaking changes may be introduced at any time.
- v0.X.Y: Breaking changes may only be introduced with a minor version number
bump.
- vX.Y.Z: Breaking changes may only be introduced with a major version number
bump
### Unstable Features
To avoid premature stabilization and excessive version churn, unstable features
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are unavailable unless the `--unstable` / `-u` flag is passed, for example
`imdl --unstable torrent create .` . Unstable features may be changed or removed
at any time.
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## Bittorrent
### BEP Support
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| Symbol | Meaning |
|--------------------|---------------------------------------|
| :white_check_mark: | Supported |
| :x: | Unsupported (links to tracking issue) |
| :heavy_minus_sign: | Not Applicable |
| BEP | Status | Title |
|:----------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| [00 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Index of BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals |
| [01 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0001.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | The BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal Process |
| [02 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0002.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Sample reStructured Text BEP Template |
| [03 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html ) | :white_check_mark: | The BitTorrent Protocol Specification |
| [04 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0004.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Assigned Numbers |
| [05 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/90 ) | DHT Protocol |
| [06 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0006.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Fast Extension |
| [07 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0007.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | IPv6 Tracker Extension |
| [08 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0008.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Tracker Peer Obfuscation |
| [09 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/91 ) | Extension for Peers to Send Metadata Files |
| [10 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0010.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Extension Protocol |
| [11 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0011.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Peer Exchange (PEX) |
| [12 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html ) | :white_check_mark: | Multitracker Metadata Extension |
| [14 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0014.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Local Service Discovery |
| [15 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0015.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | UDP Tracker Protocol for BitTorrent |
| [16 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0016.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Superseeding |
| [17 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0017.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/92 ) | HTTP Seeding |
| [18 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0018.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Search Engine Specificiation |
| [19 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/93 ) | WebSeed - HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight style) |
| [20 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0020.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Peer ID Conventions |
| [21 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0021.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Extension for partial seeds |
| [22 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0022.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | BitTorrent Local Tracker Discovery Protocol |
| [23 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0023.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Tracker Returns Compact Peer Lists |
| [24 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0024.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Tracker Returns External IP |
| [25 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0025.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | An Alternate BitTorrent Cache Discovery Protocol |
| [26 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0026.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Zeroconf Peer Advertising and Discovery |
| [27 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0027.html ) | :white_check_mark: | Private Torrents |
| [28 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0028.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Tracker exchange extension |
| [29 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0029.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | uTorrent transport protocol |
| [30 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0030.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/94 ) | Merkle hash torrent extension |
| [31 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0031.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Failure Retry Extension |
| [32 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0032.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | BitTorrent DHT Extensions for IPv6 |
| [33 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0033.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | DHT Scrapes |
| [34 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0034.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | DNS Tracker Preferences |
| [35 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0035.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/96 ) | Torrent Signing |
| [36 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0036.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Torrent RSS feeds |
| [37 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0037.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Anonymous BitTorrent over proxies |
| [38 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0038.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Finding Local Data Via Torrent File Hints |
| [39 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/98 ) | Updating Torrents Via Feed URL |
| [40 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0040.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Canonical Peer Priority |
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| [41 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0041.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | UDP Tracker Protocol Extensions |
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| [42 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0042.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | DHT Security extension |
| [43 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0043.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Read-only DHT Nodes |
| [44 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Storing arbitrary data in the DHT |
| [45 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0045.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Multiple-address operation for the BitTorrent DHT |
| [46 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items |
| [47 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0047.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/99 ) | Padding files and extended file attributes |
| [48 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0048.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Tracker Protocol Extension: Scrape |
| [49 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0049.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/100 ) | Distributed Torrent Feeds |
| [50 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0050.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Publish/Subscribe Protocol |
| [51 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0051.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | DHT Infohash Indexing |
| [52 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html ) | [:x: ](https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/101 ) | The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2 |
| [53 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0053.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Magnet URI extension - Select specific file indices for download |
| [54 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0054.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | The lt_donthave extension |
| [55 ](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0055.html ) | :heavy_minus_sign: | Holepunch extension |
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## References
### BitTorrent
| URL | Description |
|:------------------------------------------------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org | GitHub repository hosting protocol development discussion and contents of bittorrent.org. |
| https://www.bittorrent.org | Official web site site hosting BEPs and other information about the protocol. |
| https://wiki.theory.org/index.php/Main_Page | Wiki with lots of information about all aspects of the BitTorrent protocol and implementations. |
| https://archive.org/details/2014_torrent_archive_organized) | Massive 158 GiB archive containing 5.5 million torrents, assembled in 2014. |
| https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-transport | Github repository hosting The Internet Archive's distributed web and BitTorrent-related software. |