Documentation · Protocol Line
  1. Documentation overview
  2. Core concepts
  3. Protocol Line
  4. Foundation
  5. Identity
  6. Pairwise protection
  7. Messaging & reliability
  8. HTTPS transport
  9. Groups & federation
  10. Verification
  11. Governance & license

One exact Candidate Protocol Line

The current line binds Generation 1, eight complete capabilities, the active protection profile, stable claims, and session rules into one content identity.

DimensionCurrent value
Wire locatorlicoarc.protocol-line.v1
Generation1
LifecycleCandidate
Definition statusCOMPLETE
New-session eligibilitytrue
Publication eligibilityfalse
Mandatory capability closure8 of 8 COMPLETE

Semantic identity

The line identity is a domain-separated digest over its named non-circular semantic projection. It includes Generation 1, ordered mandatory capability semantic identities, active protection profile identities, stable positive claim identifiers, and session rules. Lifecycle and publication metadata are excluded so they do not create circular identity.

Definition admission

Admission requires every mandatory capability and active profile to be complete, stable positive claims to carry their required formal bindings, declared positive and negative corpora to close, semantic identities to recompute, the tracked graph to close, and deterministic artifact generation to reproduce the checked bundle.

Candidate is mutable. COMPLETE reports source-owned definition closure. Session eligible permits sessions under this fixed definition. Publication ineligible means the definition state does not authorize publication.

Fixed context, no negotiation list

The initial line authenticates one exact content identity during establishment. It does not exchange a version list or translate between generations. An unknown or mismatched identity rejects before state advance.