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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-006: Access-Control Posture — the Open Gate Is the Security Boundary
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## Status
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Accepted (2026-09-07; records the OQ-TN-08 resolution as a decision —
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the posture was resolved in Phase 0 but the consumer-visible constants
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had no ADR backing)
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## Context
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Tunnels reach local networks: opening a tunnel channel instructs the
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producer to dial (or accept for) a target — potentially anything the
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producer's host can reach. The open gate is therefore the security
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boundary of this crate, in the same sense that SSH's
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`AllowTcpForwarding`/`PermitOpen` govern `direct-tcpip` opens. The
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question (OQ-TN-08, Phase 0) was how much of that boundary lives in
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this crate vs alkcall's op-level ACL vs the assembly layer.
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Phase 0 resolved the conceptual tangle (2026-09-05, the OQ-TN-08
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resolution): at protocol-crate level, a produced resource belongs to
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the far side of the connection — the protocol works under that
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assumption, so the ACL story is exactly alkcall's existing op-level
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ACL. No new policy layer. The hub/overlay mechanism (workers
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connecting in, the hub re-exposing resources per ITS policy) is a
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downstream, assembly-layer concern (OQ-TN-12's scope).
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What was left implicit — and needs pinning, because it is
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consumer-visible and stable-once-published:
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- The scope constant governing tunnel opens (`tunnel:open`) is
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ACL-surface: identities will be GRANTED this scope by name once
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consumers exist (the same one-way character as ALPN strings, which
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ADR-002 treats as wire-stable).
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- Whether v1 carries target allowlists / tunnel-specific ownership
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machinery.
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## Decision
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1. **The open gate is the boundary, and it is alkcall's ACL.** The
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open op's `AccessControl` rides `ChannelCore::register_openable` —
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the registry runs the ACL before the establisher. The base gate is
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the scope constant **`TUNNEL_OPEN_SCOPE = "tunnel:open"`**
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(required scope, exact string — stable once published; consumers
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will request grants by it). An identity without the scope is
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`FORBIDDEN` before any establisher code runs.
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2. **The scope string is wire/ACL-stable** from the first consumer:
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renaming is a breaking change to every deployed grant; new gates
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are additional scopes on new ops (additive), never a rename.
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3. **No target allowlists and no tunnel-specific policy machinery in
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v1.** The resource is owned by the far side (the Phase 0
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resolution); a producer that wants finer granularity wires
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`OwnershipProvider` checks into ITS establisher — the protocol
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provides the seam (the establisher sees the per-call opener
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identity, alkcall 0.7.0 CF-006), not the policy. This mirrors
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alktty's posture (`TTY_OPEN_SCOPE` + op-level ACL, no
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tty-specific allowlist).
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4. **The optional ownership seam:** the establisher MAY consult
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`OwnershipProvider.owns(id_ref, kind, &id, "tunnel")` (the 4-arg
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shape; alknet ADR-050's model) for resource-scoped checks. v1
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does not require it.
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5. **Discovery is the ACL-filtered ops listing** (openable channels
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are operations, alkcall ADR-047): a consumer learns available
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tunnel resources through the existing bidirectional ops listing,
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`OperationSpec.description` round-trips through discovery (the
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human-readable hint). The live resource-enumeration half (alkcall
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OQ-40) stays deferred upstream.
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6. **Identity resolution** is alkcall 0.7.0's precedence chain
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(CF-005): payload `auth_token` > `ServingConfig.identity` >
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transport identity; the establisher/pump handler receive the
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per-call opener identity (CF-006). Identity-less dispatch fails
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closed (`FORBIDDEN`).
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7. **`-D`/dynamic targets need no separate policy hook:** a socks5
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tunnel is an ordinary tunnel to a socks5 resource; whatever ACL
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governs that resource governs everything reachable through it,
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plus whatever policy the socks5 implementation applies downstream
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(target selection is in the socks5 protocol, not params).
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## Consequences
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- **One security knob per producer deployment** (the op-level ACL +
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scope grants) instead of a tunnel-specific policy language — the
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accepted simplicity; per-resource granularity is an establisher
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customization (the seam), not a v1 surface.
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- **The scope constant is a compatibility commitment:** treat
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`tunnel:open` like the ALPN string. Changing it after consumers
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request grants is a breaking ACL change.
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- **No allowlist concept** — a wildcard-egress producer
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(`0.0.0.0/0`-style egress) is expressed by registering a resource
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whose backing is that egress; gating it is the assembly layer's
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ownership check at the seam. The protocol stays out of the business.
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- **Tunnels reach local networks** — producers MUST treat the gate as
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the security boundary; the spec docs state this posture (producer.md).
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## References
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- OQ-TN-08 (promoted, resolved by this ADR)
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- alkcall ADR-047 (open ops + ACL wiring), ADR-017 §7 (the
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`auth_token` path), ledger CF-005/CF-006 (identity precedence,
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per-call opener); alknet ADR-024/ADR-050 (registry layering,
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ownership — the alkcall ports ADR-019/ADR-011)
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- alktty's `TTY_OPEN_SCOPE` posture (the sibling precedent)
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- AGENTS.md convention 13 (access control) |