Predictive Rendezvous: Time--Intent--Deterministic Peer Coordination Without Infrastructure

Most peer-to-peer systems rely on external infrastructure---such as signaling servers, trackers, or distributed hash tables---to enable peers to discover and connect to one another. This infrastructure is commonly treated as fundamental. This document adopts a different view: such components primarily synchronize transient, time-sensitive state between otherwise deterministic peers. We introduce Predictive Rendezvous, a coordination architecture in which peers establish communication by executing a shared, deterministic rendezvous plan derived from prior agreement, shared time context, and cryptographic entropy. Instead of discovering each other via network lookups, peers predict each other's behavior in time,…