Coordination by Foreknowledge: Semantic Rendezvous Tokens, Time--Based Addressing, and Deterministic Peer Systems

The architectural pattern now called Predictive Rendezvous was originally introduced in ashort prior--art note under the title ``Predictive Rendezvous: Time--Intent--DeterministicPeer Coordination Without Infrastructure''. That document had two goals: to record an ideabefore it became folklore, and to fix some vocabulary around it. It did not attempt to be afull treatment. This book is an attempt to do that deeper work, under a different name so that the roles ofthe two texts remain distinct. The prior--art note marks the first appearance of the idea inpublic form. The present volume develops it as a broader architecture of coordination byforeknowledge. The organising claim is simple: in many settings, peers…