Route scoring
Routes are ranked by reliability, latency, bandwidth, cost, metering, battery impact and hop count, with hard policy constraints such as "never use metered links".
Global network
Identity stays the same. Routes can change.
JawaChat separates who you are and what you send from how it travels, so messages can use whichever compatible route is available.
249ISO region codes in the gateway registry
Multi-pathPolicy-driven route selection
TTLHop-safe forwarding
Store & forwardBounded, deduplicated queues
8User-selectable web relays
Architecture
How a message travels
JawaChat identityKey pair generated on your device
Encrypted protocol envelopeTransport-neutral message kinds, TTL and dedupe IDs
Route engineScores reliability, latency, bandwidth, cost, battery and hops
Internetlive
Nostr relayslive
WebRTClive
Gatewaysbeta
Nearby meshplanned
Satelliteplanned
Store & forward
Bounded queues, deduplication and TTL/hop limits support delay-tolerant delivery instead of assuming everyone is always online.
Regional gateways
Gateway IDs encode country, subdivision and locality, so the same node software can represent a deployment in any ISO region.
Relay health
The web app shows which relays are online, publishes to all of them and queues anything that fails in an encrypted outbox.
Call quality policy
The routing core can step calls down from video to audio to text as network quality drops.
Authenticated relay
The JawaChat relay authenticates clients with signed challenges and enforces frame sizes, rate limits and origin allow-lists.
Gateway naming
Every region, one naming scheme.
Gateways follow a predictable jawa-country-subdivision-locality-NN format, from Toronto to Ludhiana to São Paulo.
Example gateway IDs
jawa-ca-ontario-toronto-01
jawa-in-punjab-ludhiana-01
jawa-gb-england-london-01
jawa-au-victoria-melbourne-01
jawa-jp-tokyo-01
jawa-br-sao-paulo-01What this does and doesn't mean
The registry can represent a gateway in every ISO region. It does not mean JawaChat operates physical infrastructure in all of them. Radio, carrier and satellite routes need compatible hardware, services and authorization.
Try it
Private messaging that isn't tied to one network.
Routing is separate from platform-specific transports, so new networks can be added one at a time.