NRP — Namespace Resolution Protocol

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Preamble

The Namespace Resolution Protocol (NRP) specifies how a me:// URI is resolved from a symbolic address into a concrete value, across a distributed mesh of surfaces — without a central registry, without a central server, and without requiring persistent connectivity.

It closes the gap between two layers, always composed in this order:

• Semantic resolution — already implemented in this.me: local, mathematical, derivation-based. The kernel resolves a path entirely offline.
• Topological resolution — the NRP’s job: how a requesting surface finds and reaches the surface that holds the target namespace, path, and key material.

me://jabellae.cleaker.me[surface:iphone]/wallet.balance
         │                    │                 │
    topological           topological        semantic
    (find the             (find which        (resolve the
     namespace)            surface)           path locally)

Meaning lives in the namespace. Execution lives in the mesh.

This page is the canonical entry point for the protocol — every version below is a snapshot of the spec at a point in time. Newer versions supersede older ones but don’t erase them; the mesh, like the kernel, keeps its history.

Versions

See also

• Surface Access Points and Routing — how HTTP requests physically reach a surface
• NRP Implementation Status
• NRP Scoring Engine
• NRP Test Documentation
• NRP Learning Loop
• NRP Learning Observability