Now, if I want to invite friends I just ask them to download the Ziti Desktop Edge, create an identity token for them, making sure they have the attribute #${DEVICE_NAME}.clients so they are authorized, and send it their way.

Wow, so quick and convenient!

Definitely not immediately awkward and dumb.

Dude is spending incredibly large amounts of time and effort when what they wanted was a whitelist and SRV record.