IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP, and many more protocols set the boundaries of what we do on the internet. Their specifications and implementations have enabled many great advances, but some of these advances have revealed structures and mechanisms that are objectively counter to their users' needs and wants. Our communities are radical in many ways, and some of our shared principles are accessibility, ubiquity, sustainability, resilience, and impact. In this talk we'll look at effective tactics used by protocols, old and new, to achieve these principles. Protocol Labs: https://protocol.ai IPFS: https://ipfs.io OurNetworks: https://ournetworks.ca