Participant Relationship Protocol

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F32-PN: Yes

Rationale

The protocol author confirms that clients calculate their trajectories using negotiated availability and transport capacity. Each client negotiates capacity, QoS and bandwidth reservation with the aggregators along its half of the path up to the rendezvous; the opposite client does the same for the other half. Known future availability and usable capacity therefore feed local trajectory selection, including whether the intended transfer fits the selected opportunities. Planning need not be performed by a central service or by one participant with the entire end-to-end contact plan. This author-confirmed architectural composition supplies the capability omitted by the earlier review, which assessed availability windows and resource observations separately.

Assessment method

Direct protocol-author clarification and architectural composition assessment; no runtime test

Source context

Protocol author, conversation of 2026-10-23; exact statement preserved in round581-sources.json

Outstanding qualification

Architectural Yes based explicitly on the author clarification, not an independently demonstrated wire or executable planner. Each side is responsible for negotiating its own half; knowledge or authority over the other half is not assumed. A local feasible plan is not by itself a global delivery guarantee: rendezvous coordination, custody where required, current agreements and compatible delivery timing still matter. This does not assign a global clock, atomic reservation protocol, numeric opcode or stale-plan recovery procedure. Concrete capacity accounting, validity and change handling remain implementation/profile obligations. F32 does not require guaranteed bandwidth or a particular SABR algorithm. The clarification establishes a composed planning capability; it does not turn a resource report or the retention mechanism alone into a reservation service.

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