Yes, sure, but the protocol and one implementation of it are pretty tightly coupled. As a measure of algorithmic complexity (ala Chaitin?), the kernel code shou

Yes, sure, but the protocol and one implementation of it are pretty tightly coupled. As a measure of algorithmic complexity (ala Chaitin?), the kernel code should show us at least order of magnitude, 4 K lines of code. Compared to, say Google which is 2 billion, a tad more complex.