@techreport{vandemeent-mux-status-frame-00,
    number =    {draft-vandemeent-mux-status-frame-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vandemeent-mux-status-frame/00/},
    author =    {Jasper van de Meent and Root AI},
    title =     {{MUX Status Frame: Two-Way Reachability Signalling without an Enumeration Oracle}},
    pagetotal = 9,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jun,
    day =       17,
    abstract =  {This document defines the MUX Status Frame, a two-octet, relationship-scoped signal that lets a multiplexing routing layer tell a proven, related peer that a destination is unavailable - offline, not in session, superseded, or permanently revoked (tombstoned) - while disclosing nothing to the open network. It resolves the tension between two failure modes of a null-routing mux: silently dropping traffic to a dead peer (a false positive - the sender believes it landed) and answering honestly to everyone (an enumeration oracle mapping who is alive, dead, or revoked). Honest status travels only on a relationship-scoped trusted path; to the world, and to any merely authenticated but unrelated peer, the entire frame is zero. Status is derived from the canonical naming record and session liveness, not from a separate blocklist. The encoding is deterministic so independent implementations agree byte-for-byte. This protocol is transport-agnostic and complements JIS {[}JIS{]}, AINS {[}AINS{]}, TIBET {[}TIBET{]}, and RVP {[}RVP{]}.},
}