intermodal: a 40' shipping container for the Internet

Manual

• General
  • Semantic Versioning
  • Unstable Features
• Bittorrent
  • BEP Support
• References
  • BitTorrent

General

Semantic Versioning

Intermodal follows semantic versioning.

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 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.

Bittorrent

BEP Support

Symbol	Meaning
✅	Supported
❌	Unsupported (links to tracking issue)
➖	Not Applicable

BEP	Status	Title
00	➖	Index of BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals
01	➖	The BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal Process
02	➖	Sample reStructured Text BEP Template
03	✅	The BitTorrent Protocol Specification
04	➖	Assigned Numbers
05	❌	DHT Protocol
06	➖	Fast Extension
07	➖	IPv6 Tracker Extension
08	➖	Tracker Peer Obfuscation
09	❌	Extension for Peers to Send Metadata Files
10	➖	Extension Protocol
11	➖	Peer Exchange (PEX)
12	✅	Multitracker Metadata Extension
14	➖	Local Service Discovery
15	➖	UDP Tracker Protocol for BitTorrent
16	➖	Superseeding
17	❌	HTTP Seeding
18	➖	Search Engine Specificiation
19	❌	WebSeed - HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight style)
20	➖	Peer ID Conventions
21	➖	Extension for partial seeds
22	➖	BitTorrent Local Tracker Discovery Protocol
23	➖	Tracker Returns Compact Peer Lists
24	➖	Tracker Returns External IP
25	➖	An Alternate BitTorrent Cache Discovery Protocol
26	➖	Zeroconf Peer Advertising and Discovery
27	✅	Private Torrents
28	➖	Tracker exchange extension
29	➖	uTorrent transport protocol
30	❌	Merkle hash torrent extension
31	➖	Failure Retry Extension
32	➖	BitTorrent DHT Extensions for IPv6
33	➖	DHT Scrapes
34	➖	DNS Tracker Preferences
35	❌	Torrent Signing
36	➖	Torrent RSS feeds
37	➖	Anonymous BitTorrent over proxies
38	➖	Finding Local Data Via Torrent File Hints
39	❌	Updating Torrents Via Feed URL
40	➖	Canonical Peer Priority
41	➖	UDP Tracker Protocol Extensions
42	➖	DHT Security extension
43	➖	Read-only DHT Nodes
44	➖	Storing arbitrary data in the DHT
45	➖	Multiple-address operation for the BitTorrent DHT
46	➖	Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items
47	❌	Padding files and extended file attributes
48	➖	Tracker Protocol Extension: Scrape
49	❌	Distributed Torrent Feeds
50	➖	Publish/Subscribe Protocol
51	➖	DHT Infohash Indexing
52	❌	The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2
53	➖	Magnet URI extension - Select specific file indices for download
54	➖	The lt_donthave extension
55	➖	Holepunch extension

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.