The above functions and principles form the core of Reticulum, and would suffice to create functional networked applications in local clusters, for example over radio links where all interested nodes can directly hear each other. But to be truly useful, we need a way to direct traffic over multiple hops in the network.

In the following sections, two concepts that allow this will be introduced, paths and links.

This chapter will detail protocol specific information that is essential to the implementation of Reticulum, but non critical in understanding how the protocol works on a general level. It should be treated more as a reference than as essential reading.

Currently, Reticulum is completely priority-agnostic regarding general traffic. All traffic is handled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Announce re-transmission are handled according to the re-transmission times and priorities described earlier in this chapter.

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