# Antares **Repository Path**: nohn-ecosystem/antares ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: Antares - **Description**: Global Federated Stable Interoperability Protocol - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: Apache-2.0 - **Default Branch**: main - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2026-07-16 - **Last Updated**: 2026-09-22 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: AI, Agent, Network ## README

Global Federated Stable Interoperability Protocol GFSIP v1.0

## ✦ About

ANTARES is GFSIP v1.0 — the Global Federated Stable Interoperability Protocol. It provides encrypted, multiplexed, recoverable cross-domain communication for services, AI agents, devices, and organizations, without a central authority. With QUIC as the mandatory transport layer and deterministic CBOR serialization, it has built-in session resumption, idempotent deduplication, and causal audit, serving as the stable foundation of a decentralized network.

ANTARES overview

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## ✦ Core Capabilities

#	Capability	Description
1	Encrypted Session	Mutually authenticated TLS or token-authenticated sessions over QUIC
2	Multiplexing	Independent logical channels within a single session
3	Session Resumption	Resume sessions without re-authentication after network handover
4	Idempotent Side Effects	Windowed deduplication via idempotency keys
5	Causal Audit (optional)	Signed event records with declared causal predecessors
6	Cross-Domain Federation	Multi-trust-anchor routing + signed domain descriptors
7	Fault Isolation	A single domain failure does not block intra-domain traffic

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## ✦ Wire Format

GFSIP uses a 44-byte fixed-length header over QUIC, with ALPN gfsip/1. Extension headers use deterministic CBOR (big-endian, shortest encoding). 18 standard message types (0x01–0x16) cover the full lifecycle: handshake, channel management, data transfer, session resumption, audit events, and federation routing.

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## ✦ Repository Contents

File	Purpose
`GFSIP_v1.0_protocol_spec.md`	Full protocol specification (33 sections)
`gfsip-state-machine.json`	Machine-readable state machine definition
`gfsip-message-schema.json`	Logical message JSON Schema
`gfsip-error-registry.json`	Numeric error code registry
`gfsip-conformance-checklist.csv`	Conformance test checklist
`reference-impl/`	Python reference implementation — frame codec, state machine, channel management, authentication, deduplication, resumption, audit, federation, end-to-end demo (9/9 conformance vectors passing)

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## ✦ Protocol Profile

Core/1 (mandatory) — QUIC transport, version negotiation, mutual authentication, session and channel management, session resumption, structured errors, graceful shutdown.

Audit/1 (optional) — Signed causal event records with declared causal predecessors, actor identity, rule version, and pre/post state hashes; rejects self-loops and known cycles.

Federation/1 (optional) — Cross-domain routing via signed DomainDescriptor objects, multi-trust-anchor configuration, descriptor expiration / revocation, and fault isolation.

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## ✦ Quick Start ```bash # Install SDK (PyPI) pip install gfsip # Run end-to-end demo (clone the repo to get demo files) git clone https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/Antares.git cd Antares/reference-impl pip install -r requirements.txt python demo.py # Sync API demo: handshake -> channel -> data -> dedup -> resume python async_demo.py # Async API demo: await connect/open_channel/send (zero manual pump) python gfsip/conformance.py # 9/9 Section 28 minimal conformance vectors — all passing ```

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## ✦ Application Scenarios

- **AI Agent Networks** — Multi-agent task collaboration across organizational boundaries, with auditable trails - **Enterprise Integration** — Cross-organizational workflow orchestration without a central authority - **IoT / Edge** — Device-to-cloud session resumption under network handover - **Finance / Compliance** — Signed causal audit chains for regulatory reporting - **Healthcare** — Federated data exchange with domain-level policy enforcement - **Robotics** — Reliable command channels for idempotent safe operations

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## ✦ Project Status

Milestone	Status
Spec v1.0 (interface frozen)	✅ Done
Machine-readable state machine and schemas	✅ Done
Python reference implementation (9/9 conformance)	✅ Done
PyPI package release (pip install gfsip)	✅ Done
Async high-level API (AsyncEndpoint, zero manual pump)	✅ Done
Independent second implementation	🔲 In progress
Public interoperability report	🔲 Todo
Production pilot domain	🔲 Todo

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## ✦ Ecosystem ANTARES is a member of the NOHN AI ecosystem — a family of projects built around second-perspective causal audit and deterministic execution: | Project | Repository | Role | |---|---|---| | **Second-Perspective (GCAE)** | [nohn3043-arch/second-perspective](https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/second-perspective) | Global cognitive audit engine — five-operator causal audit core (IMDA 95/100) | | **NOMOS** | [nohn3043-arch/second-perspective](https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/second-perspective) (`Intelligent-Decision-Hub--Nomos` branch) | Auditable deterministic decision hub (IMDA 95/100) | | **SPL-G1** | [nohn3043-arch/SPL-G1](https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/SPL-G1) | Hardware causal-audit trusted compute unit (TCU) | | **SPL-Virtual-World-Base** | [nohn3043-arch/Second-Reality](https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/Second-Reality) | Virtual-world and metaverse infrastructure (Constitution / Law / Bridge) | | **Story-Engine** | [nohn3043-arch/story-engine](https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/story-engine) | Long-form narrative consistency engine | | **Antares** | [nohn3043-arch/Antares](https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/Antares) | GFSIP v1.0 — federated stable interoperability protocol with causal audit | | **Anthropomorphic-Agent-Engine** | [nohn3043-arch/Anthropomorphic-Agent-Engine](https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/Anthropomorphic-Agent-Engine) | Deterministic anthropomorphic psychology engine (SPL Pure Core V8.0) | | **PAGES** | [nohn3043-arch/pages](https://github.com/nohn3043-arch/pages) | Official NOHN AI ecosystem landing page |

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## ✦ License This repository uses a **dual-track license**:

Content	License	File
Code implementation (the Python package `gfsip` under `reference-impl/`)	Apache License 2.0	`LICENSE`
Protocol specification and documentation (`GFSIP_v1.0_protocol_spec.md`, `gfsip-.json`, `gfsip-.csv`, `assets/` diagrams)	CC BY 4.0	`LICENSE-SPEC.md`

Apache-2.0 permits commercial use, modification, and distribution, and includes an **express patent grant**; CC BY 4.0 permits any use and redistribution (including commercial use) with attribution only — the open attribution license for the specification serves GFSIP's goal of dissemination as an open standard. > **Irrevocable notice**: Versions up to and including v1.0 were previously released in their entirety under CC BY 4.0 (including code). That license is irrevocable under its terms, and those versions will remain permanently usable under CC BY 4.0. The dual-track arrangement above takes effect from the next version. - **Contact**: International / Global — [ai@nohnlins.com](mailto:ai@nohnlins.com) · China — [lin@secondai.top](mailto:lin@secondai.top)

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