JACS: Why?

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JACS or ‘Just Another Communications Stack’ aims to change the way data networks currently work.

JACS is a new communications stack that is totally different than the TCP/IP stack. JACS allows nodes to perform regular actions like surfing the Internet, interconnecting and much more.

At a very high level; JACS is the result of combining Blockchain and Connection-Less Network Services (CLNS), with its 160-bits NSAP addresses.

There are many drivers behind the creation of JACS, like: IPv4 address depletion, centralized address allocation and Internet routing system security.
The world ran out of IPv4 addresses in the first quarter of 2011.

IPv4’s meager 32-bit address space of four billion is not even enough to give each person on earth a unique identifier.
IPv6 has come just in time, providing 340,282,366,920,938,463,374,607,432,768,211,456 possible 128-bit addresses, but still IPv6 shares many issues as the current IPv4, and its rollout rate (that has already been very slow over the past years) is getting slower than expected for a variety of reasons.

In addition, the current system to manage the global pool of IP addresses (this applies to both IPv4 and IPv6) is centralized and managed globally by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and by five Regional Internet Registries (RIR) responsible in their designated territories for assignment to end users and local Internet registries (LIR), such as Internet service providers.

Each of these RIRs manage the address pool for a large number of countries. Because the RIRs are private organizations, they are subject to the legal framework of the country where they are based. This configuration results in a jurisdictional overflow from the legal framework of the countries where the RIR is based to all the countries that the RIRs are serving (the countries served by the RIRs de facto become subjects of the legal system of the country where the RIR is hosted).

With JACS there will be no single top authority, no regional or local authorities. JACS addresses will be assigned and administrated over blockchain. Thus, fulfilling all general guidelines like administrative decentralization and data abstraction plus hardening the security of the Internet routing system.

Most importantly, there will be no maintenance or renewal (i.e. annual) fee for JACS blocks of addresses.