Relay across any mix of links, one online answer for every client, first claim owns a hostname

A tunnel no longer depends on the kind of link under it. The relay hub keeps
one forwarding table per network instead of one per protocol, the envelope
names the end-to-end protocol, and a neighbour reached over several kinds of
transport is sent to over the best open one. A member in the middle needs no
protocol in common with either end. Which protocol a pair runs is settled by
the lower endpoint id's announced order, so both ends agree without asking.
A direct link that comes up later is shorter than the path through others, so
traffic moves to it with the same logical link.

The agent now answers "is it online" once: a live control session or any data
path. Members and peers report how they are reached (direct over a named
transport, relayed through a named member, or no data path yet), and `tsng
status` and the tray both read that instead of a session list and a WireGuard
handshake respectively.

A hostname belongs to whoever claimed it first. A claim carries the time its
author first claimed the name, signed with the record, and replicas order by
(time, id) so every member names the same holder. A later claimant keeps
working by address, is not found by the name, and is told so in its status,
`tsng status`, the tray and a HostnameTaken event.

Wire change: control and data ALPN 5, control PROTOCOL_VERSION 5, envelope
version 2, signing domain v3, state schema 7, local control protocol 18.
Upgrade every member together.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ document trusted merely because the neighbour who forwarded it signed it.
- Duplicates do not change the result.
- Two conflicting signed records at the same version from the same author need
explicit handling; they are not resolved by luck.
- Neither arrival order nor system clocks decide a winner.
- Neither arrival order nor the receiving replica's clock decides a winner. The
one thing an author's own clock is used for is the time it first claimed a
hostname, signed into its record (see below).
- Compaction must not drop what is needed to stop revoked records being
resurrected.
@@ -53,6 +55,22 @@ A hostname is a mutable binding to a persistent author, not an identity. A
rename must be a signed record that revokes the specific old binding and
announces the new one, ideally atomically in one record.
A hostname belongs to the member that claimed it **first**. Each claim carries
`hostname_since`, the author's own time in milliseconds when it first claimed
that exact name, signed with the rest of the record and kept across every later
version that keeps the name; renaming starts it afresh. Replicas order claims
by `(hostname_since, author id)`, a pure function of the records, so every
replica names the same holder whatever order the records arrived in and there
is no race to lose. A member that arrives later with a name already held keeps
working by address and keeps its claim, but is not found by that name on any
member; it is told so in its status and in `tsng status`, and finds the name
again if the holder renames or releases it.
It is the author's word, so a member with a clock set far back can claim an
older time. That can reorder who holds a *name* and nothing else — addresses,
keys and everything the data plane trusts are decided without it — and anybody
who knows the secret could take a name by other means anyway.
Turning a computer off is not a revocation of its hostname and does not remove
the participant. Revocations are not dropped merely because they are old, and
no acknowledgement from offline peers is required to keep working.