Stateless may refer to:

Society

Anarchism Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessa ...

, a political philosophy opposed to the institution of the state *

Stateless communism Anarcho-communism, also known as anarchist communism, (or, colloquially, ''ancom'' or ''ancomm'') is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that advocates communism. It calls for the abolition of private property but retains resp ...

, which Karl Marx predicted would be the final phase of communism *

Stateless nation A stateless nation is an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state''Dictionary Of Public Administration'', U.C. Mandal, Sarup & Sons 2007, 505 p. and is not the majority population in any nation state. The term "stateless" impli ...

, a group of people without a nation-state *

Stateless society A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a state. In stateless societies, there is little concentration of authority; most positions of authority that do exist are very limited in power and are generally not permanently held p ...

, a society that is not governed by a state *

Statelessness In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". Some stateless people are also refugees. However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are st ...

, the legal and social concept applicable to persons who are not citizens or subjects of any state

Computing

State (computer science) In information technology and computer science, a system is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions; the remembered information is called the state of the system. The set of states a system can oc ...

, relating to the configuration of information *

Stateless protocol A stateless protocol is a communication protocol in which the receiver must not retain session state from previous requests. The sender transfers relevant session state to the receiver in such a way that every request can be understood in isolatio ...

, a communications protocol that treats each request as an independent transaction that is unrelated to any previous request *

Stateless firewall In computing, a stateful firewall is a network-based firewall that individually tracks sessions of network connections traversing it. Stateful packet inspection, also referred to as dynamic packet filtering, is a security feature often used in ...

, that treats each network frame (or packet) in isolation *

Stateless IP/ICMP Translation algorithm An IPv6 transition mechanism is a technology that facilitates the transitioning of the Internet from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) infrastructure in use since 1983 to the successor addressing and routing system of Internet Protocol Vers ...

, an IPv6 translation mechanism

Music

* ''Stateless'' (Lene Lovich album), 1978 *

Stateless (band) Stateless are an English electronic band, founded in 2002 and based in Leeds and London. The group comprises Chris James (vocals, keyboards, guitars), kidkanevil (turntables, sampling, programming), Justin Percival (bass guitar, vocals) and Da ...

, an English electronica band ** ''Stateless'' (Stateless album), 2007 * ''Stateless'' (Unwed Sailor album), 2002 * "Stateless", a song by U2 from The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture * ''Stateless'' (Dirty Beaches album), 2014

Film and television

* ''Stateless'' (TV series), a 2019 Australian drama series * ''Stateless'' (film), a 2020 Canadian documentary films

Society

Computing

Music

Film and television

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