I'm considering doing just that. I already have most of it done in fact... It's the engine behind this: https://www.zerotier.com/ https://www.zerotier.com/ It

I'm considering doing just that. I already have most of it done in fact... It's the engine behind this: https://www.zerotier.com/ https://www.zerotier.com/ It does most of the things I listed. The remainder would be a matter of proper packaging and integration with mobile OSes for the mobile version. The idea would be to package it with an ultralight IP stack so that each app appeared on a virtual network as an ip endpoint. Servers could join the same virtual networks using the already released software I just linked, and services could just talk standard ip as if they were talking to any other network. No rewrites on the server end needed, and the client may just need to link in a library and call some init functions. Respecting battery life might be hard, but I see no reason integration with Apple or Google push notification systems couldn't be used to wake the endpoint app when it needs to do something. Idea is that desktop nodes could run in a heavier mode than mobile nodes, with the latter going dormant after a few minutes of inactivity and waking on coarse grained push. Drop me an email at contact@zerotier.com if you're really interested in this kind of thing. I'm doing some research to see if this is worth building.