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<reference anchor="I-D.melegassi-dispatch-mvps-snap-backup" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-melegassi-dispatch-mvps-snap-backup-00">
   <front>
      <title>SNAP: Simple Native Archive Protocol</title>
      <author initials="R." surname="Yoshioka" fullname="Rodrigo Yoshioka">
         <organization>e.Mix</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="G." surname="Labadessa" fullname="Guilherme Labadessa">
         <organization>OrcaTI</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="P." surname="Scalon" fullname="Pedro Scalon">
         <organization>Sysbrasil Tecnologia</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="D. C." surname="de Brito" fullname="Diego Canton de Brito">
         <organization>Vero Internet</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="E." surname="Belotto" fullname="Eduardo Belotto">
         <organization>Zadara</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="May" day="26" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   SNAP (Simple Native Archive Protocol) defines a minimal, self-
   describing backup object encoded as a single JSON document, modeled
   in YANG [RFC7950] and encoded per [RFC7951].  A SNAP object contains
   a manifest of files with per-file cryptographic hashes, integrity-
   verified metadata, and a compressed binary payload -- all within one
   atomic, transport-agnostic JSON document.  Any agent capable of
   parsing JSON and applying standard decompression can produce or
   restore a SNAP backup without proprietary tooling, side-channel
   metadata, or multi-phase handshakes.

   This document defines the YANG module &quot;snap&quot;, its JSON encoding,
   integrity verification procedure, bindings to common transports, and
   its role as the atomic transport substrate for the Multi-Vantage Path
   State (MVPS) family of Internet-Drafts.  When a SNAP Object carries
   an MVPS Bundle [I-D.melegassi-ippm-mvps-bundle], the canonical-form
   determinism of SNAP (Theorem 1 of this document) composes with the
   MVPS Architecture axioms A1..A5 [I-D.melegassi-iab-mvps-architecture]
   to inherit the full coherence algebra of [MVPS-v4] (Theorems 1, 2, 3,
   3&#x27;, 4, 5, 9 and Stein&#x27;s Lemma [Stein52] [CoverThomas2006]) without
   alteration.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-melegassi-dispatch-mvps-snap-backup-00" />
   
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