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FEDAnet is a proposed project of a fully decentralized overlay network, which will (hopefully) let people have a full grade of communication freedom. The network is supposed to consist of nodes, each node being able to serve dozens of people. Running a node will require certain level of knowledge and some effort, while using the network as a person served by a node (a so-called point) is to take no special qualification. FEDAnet is supposed to use IPv6 internally, connecting its nodes with tunnels over IPv4 Internet. The following key principles are proposed for FEDAnet:

Plain C (may be some C++ for non-infrastructure programs), no external dependencies, statically linked executables.
No central authority of any kind.
Each node master is supposed to provide the access only to his/her friends and relatives. No “open”/“public” nodes, no paid access.
A node ID is derived from the node's master secret key, which takes a notable amount of computer time to generate.

See the proposal text for details. If you're going to run your own node, you can download the key generator and run it. Chances are you'll have a reasonable node key and pre-generated challenge-response tables to the date when the phase of active testing starts. Since the version 0.0.03, the source tarball also includes the program named natcheck, which checks the connectivity conditions: you can clearly see if it is possible for you to run a node right at your home equipment. Yes, it may be possible even behind a NAT — if your NAT is implemented as Full Cone. A single user node may even work behind a Restricted Cone NAT.