The Phase 0 OQ ledger (OQ-TN-01..10) promoted into
docs/architecture/open-questions.md (now OQ-TN-01..14, with four
new Phase 1 residues). Six ADRs and four spec docs, all Draft, all
decision-shaped per the SDD process (ADRs carry the WHY; specs carry
the WHAT and reference by number):
ADRs:
- 001 open-params-layout: params = {resource, substrate} — the
producer's stable name, not an address; wire-stable from the first
consumer; unknown substrates fail loudly at schema time
- 002 alpn-strategy: single alk/tunnel ALPN (option A); substrate in
params selects the framing; prior art (SSH/SOCKS5/udpgw) gives no
reason for the split
- 003 codec-and-udp-framing: raw pass-through (stream) / mandatory
[len: u16 BE] (UDP) — F-2 mandate recorded (the codec is mandatory
for correctness, not cosmetics); len=0 = legal empty datagram;
OQ-TN-13 resolved fail-loud (truncation)
- 004 no-backend-trait: halves functions at the assembly layer;
listen is an establisher shape; hub re-produce deferred(OQ-TN-12);
trait re-evaluated at the alknet ADR-078 convergence threshold
- 005 consumer-session-owns-teardown: TunnelSession with
open/adopt/stream_halves/take_halves/pump_against/close/join/Drop —
the W3 adopter gap closes structurally; Drop is the best-effort
fallback
- 006 access-control-posture: the open gate is the boundary;
TUNNEL_OPEN_SCOPE = tunnel:open (stable once published); op-level
ACL; ownership seam; no allowlists in v1; identity = 0.7.0's
precedence chain
Spec docs:
- overview.md: purpose, resource model, deps (alkcall 0.7.0,
wasm-clean default, local feature), module map
- wire.md: the open op (params/reply/typed errors), the data plane
by substrate, sentinels + half-close, byte diagrams
- producer.md: spec, establisher (dial + listen shapes), pump
handler (pump_bidi inline, R-02), registration API, ACL posture
- consumer.md: TunnelSession (forward open + reverse adopt
construction), data plane, teardown API (close/join/Drop incl.
pump-less join semantics)
- bast.md: the BAST doc for the UDP codec (convention 12's trigger
fired — the framing IS binary beyond pass-through)
- open-questions.md: OQ-TN-01..14; 01..10 promoted (faithful to the
phase-0 ledger's final states), 11 partially resolved (collision
domain = per-producer registry per ADR-001; lifecycle open),
12 deferred(scope), 13 resolved fail-loud (ADR-003), 14 open
Verified by an architecture-reviewer pass (2 criticals, 6 majors,
10 minors — all fixed: ADR-001/003-vs-OQ decision-state contradictions
resolved; the Layer-2 mislabel corrected to the ADR-047 §4 per-session
fork; alktty/alknet ADR misattributions fixed; codec placement pinned
to the establisher (pump stays substrate-agnostic); reverse-path
construction named (TunnelSession::adopt + pump_against); security
posture promoted to ADR-006; BAST doc written; F-2 rationale deduped;
README tables completed; channel_id > 0; MTU wording fixed; ADR-047 §5
attributions corrected; impacts lines added to unresolved OQs; review/
ledger pointer paths added to README references).
Verification: doc set internal cross-refs all resolve; cargo test,
fmt --check, doc --no-deps clean
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# ADR-002: Single `alk/tunnel` ALPN (Option A)
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## Status
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Accepted (2026-09-07)
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## Context
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alkcall ADR-004: one ALPN per protocol, `alk/` prefix. This crate owns
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the `alk/tunnel`-family ALPN(s). The open question (OQ-TN-07) was
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whether stream (TCP/unix) and datagram (UDP) tunnels get distinct
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ALPNs:
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- **Option A**: single `alk/tunnel` ALPN; the substrate is a `params`
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field, and per-substrate data framing (if any) is self-describing
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inside the channel.
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- **Option B**: `alk/tunnel` (stream) + `alk/tunnel-dgram`
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(datagram), so the wire framing differs per ALPN cleanly.
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Mechanically both are cheap: channels' `params` is ALPN-specific, and
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the open-handler registry dispatches per ALPN. The cost difference is
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consumer-side API shape (two session types vs one with a substrate
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enum) and the ALPN namespace (a published string is wire-stable).
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Prior art surveyed in Phase 0 (`ssh-socks5-survey.md`):
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- SSH uses ONE channel mechanism for all forwarding flavors — the
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channel type string (`direct-tcpip`, `forwarded-tcpip`,
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`direct-streamlocal`) is per-open metadata on one transport, not a
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separate transport per flavor.
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- SOCKS5 runs CONNECT and UDP ASSOCIATE over one control connection
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with a CMD discriminator.
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- tun2proxy's udpgw proves datagram framing self-describes over a
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stream (length-framed datagrams inside a TCP tunnel).
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- With OQ-TN-02 resolved as endpoint-at-open for base UDP resources,
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the substrate discriminator in `params` tells the establisher and
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pumps which framing to expect — exactly option A's shape. The
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discriminator is load-bearing (it selects the framing, ADR-003),
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so it must ride the open op; the ALPN carries no substrate
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information at all.
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## Decision
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One ALPN: **`alk/tunnel`**. The substrate discriminator in `params`
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(ADR-001) selects the data-plane framing; the open op, establisher,
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pump handler, and consumer session type are shared across substrates
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(one `TunnelSession` with a substrate-shaped data plane, not two
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session types).
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- The open op id is `channels/tunnel/sub` (the `channels/<alpn>/sub`
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convention of alkcall ADR-047 — the open op is a `Sub`-typed
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operation: the reply carries `channel_id` once, the data plane
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flows on the channel's `BiStream`).
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- The channel's ALPN marker on the open-op spec is `alk/tunnel`
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(`ChannelOpenSpec::new("alk/tunnel")`) — the value the
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per-ALPN dispatch and the adopted-side manager record for
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observability.
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- If a future tunnel flavor needs structurally different framing from
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byte zero with no params-dependent dispatch, that is a NEW ALPN
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decided by a new ADR before its first consumer — never a change to
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`alk/tunnel`'s meaning. ALPN strings are wire-stable once
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published.
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## Consequences
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- **One session type for consumers** (`TunnelSession` with a
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substrate-shaped data plane, ADR-005); no API bifurcation.
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- **One registration per producer** regardless of how many substrates
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it serves; the resource registry (OQ-TN-11) keys on
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`(resource, substrate)`.
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- **Framing is params-dependent, not ALPN-dependent.** The establisher
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validates `substrate` semantically (the registry lookup); the pump
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handler is framing-agnostic (raw pass-through halves — the codec
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lives on the consumer/producer edge for UDP, ADR-003). A mismatched
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`substrate` value fails at schema/establisher time, loudly.
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- **ALPN namespace hygiene:** `alk/tunnel` is published here. The
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`alknet/tunnel` spelling in the alknet ADR-071 table predates the
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`alknet/` → `alk/` prefix swap (alkcall v0.1.1) — docs and code
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must not perpetuate the old prefix.
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## References
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- OQ-TN-07 (promoted, resolved by this ADR)
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- `docs/research/ssh-socks5-survey.md` §ALPN-relevant prior art
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- alkcall ADR-004 (ALPN convention), ADR-047 (open ops per ALPN)
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- AGENTS.md convention 17 (ALPN naming) |