Resource-Aware Routing and Mechanical Displacement for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN)

The evolving draft-ietf-green-framework provides necessary YANG data models for monitoring Device Level Energy Efficiency (DLEE) and Component Level Energy Efficiency (CLEE). However, mitigating high- volume East-West traffic (e.g., massive inference synchronization) during peak grid carbon-intensity remains a structural challenge. This document proposes an architectural extension utilizing Delay- Tolerant Networking (DTN). It introduces "Mechanical Displacement"—the physical routing of encrypted cold data via autonomous or commercial logistics—as a zero-marginal-emission routing path, managed by hardware-rooted out-of-band blind packet switching.