You need one. How exactly do you think rules are enforced in the real world? You can dance around it all you want, but there is no protocol or rule without an enforcement mechanism. That's what anarchy is. Rules and protocols are order. Anarchy is the absence of order. This really isn't complicated.

Arguments with anarchists are always fruitless because they mistake rebranding of government for original thinking. "Protocol" is the bullshit rebrand for the day.