The Decentralized Ethernet Research Protocol aims to become the platform for a collective-intellegence IP research network. In its later stages Derp hopes to become an instrument that will allow researchers and citizens access to a new database containing information about the software running on the Interent. More importantly, this will be able to determine information about the relative levels of security in different networks or nodes of the Interenet. The processes of data collection for individual nodes exists currently with applications like Nmap, but no program currently exists to provide collective intellegence and automated data analysis. Derp also aims to create an anonymous Peer-2-Peer network to transmit inew information among clients in the Derp Network. When complete Derp stands to potentially change the field of cybersecurity.