Mosaic Internet Protocol (MIP)

The Mosaic Internet Protocol (MIP) is a meta-protocol discipline for constitutional networking — a formal framework in which internet governance, identity, routing, and namespace semantics are expressed as hash-addressed artifacts subject to mechanical equality verification. MIP does not specify a network; it specifies the language in which networks are constitutionally described. This paper presents the MIP theoretical framework across three layers. The S-layer establishes nine domain physics invariants that any valid constitutional network must satisfy: detectability as design axiom, identity sovereignty through cryptographic attribution, routing as optimization not jurisdiction, governance visibility, epoch governance as temporal scoping discipline, and others. The CM-layer maps the eight-dimension configuration manifold and conducts protocol archaeology on BGP, TCP/IP+TLS, WireGuard, and Tor — evaluating each as a point in the manifold and finding BGP inadmissible by architectural foreclosure on three invariants, WireGuard the strongest existing transport substrate, and Tor the closest existing protocol to admissibility. The IC-layer presents the Ableman Mosaic Internet Protocol (AMIP) — the specific constitutional network this research recommends — as the argued conclusion of that manifold analysis, with selections at each of the eight configuration dimensions justified by the CM-layer findings. The paper introduces constitutional attribution as the enforcement mechanism for identity sovereignty: a five-component frame-level claim (who, by what authority, under what regime, meaning what) whose trust chain runs cryptography → mathematics → physics with no social trust layer above the mathematics. It elevates refusal to a first-class protocol primitive, specifies a cross-implementation conformance suite (25 JCS+BLAKE3 test vectors) that operationalizes the mechanical equality claim, and declares a post-quantum cryptography migration path across three epochs. Empirical claims are forward-referenced to a benchmark harness specifying the measurements that will validate or falsify AMIP's selections when the reference implementation reaches operational status.