Infrastructure Status and Reality

This page distinguishes between operational systems, experimental work, and conceptual research. OnionHat does not present roadmaps as facts or experiments as guarantees.

Everything listed here is subject to change.

Operational Running

Core Network Services

• Actively operated services designed to minimize observability
• Deployed with redundancy and failure tolerance
• Monitored for availability, not user behavior

Documentation

• Public architectural documentation
• Updated as systems evolve
• No retroactive sanitization

Logging Controls

• Logs retained only where operationally unavoidable
• Defined retention windows
• Deletion mechanisms tested in practice

Experimental In Development

Routing and Topology Experiments

• Non-standard routing strategies
• Tradeoff analysis between latency and observability

Hardware Variants

• Modular, low-dependency configurations
• Evaluated under constrained conditions

Tooling Prototypes

• Early-stage utilities
• Intended for inspection, not production reliance

Experimental systems may be unstable or intentionally incomplete.

Conceptual Research

• Undeployed architectural models
• Ethical and policy analysis
• Constraint exploration without implementation claims

What Is Not Running

• User profiling
• Behavioral analytics
• Advertising infrastructure
• Engagement metrics
• Opaque third-party SDKs

Absence is intentional.

Change Discipline

1. Reversibility — changes must be undoable
2. Documentability — changes must be explainable
3. Auditability — changes must leave fewer unknowns than before

Stability is preferred over novelty.