



Network Working Group                                      D. Avrilionis
Internet-Draft                                            Compellio S.A.
Intended status: Informational                               T. Hardjono
Expires: 26 August 2026                                              MIT
                                                        22 February 2026


                            SATP Setup Stage
                  draft-avrilionis-satp-setup-stage-04

Abstract

   SATP Core defines an unidirectional transfer of assets in three
   stages, namely the Transfer Initiation stage (Stage-1), the Lock-
   Assertion stage (Stage-2) and the Commitment Establishment stage
   (Stage-3).  This document defines the Setup Phase, often called
   "Stage-0", prior to the execution of SATP Core.  During Setup, the
   two Gateways that would participate in the asset transfer are bound
   together via a "transfer context".  The transfer context conveys
   information regarding the assets to be exchanged.  Gateway can
   perform any kind of negotiation based on that transfer context,
   before entering into SATP Core.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Stage 0 flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Stage 0 pre-conditions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   4.  Annex: Transfer Context Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

1.  Introduction

   SATP, in its specification in SATP Core[1], defines a three-stage
   protocol for unidirectional transfer of assets between two Networks.
   The protocol is executed by two Gateways, according to the flow
   defined in section 5 of SATP Core.  As stated in SATP Core, "the
   interactions between the peer gateways prior to transfer initiation
   stage (Stage-1) is referred to as the setup stage (Stage-0)".
   Although the Setup stage is outside the scope of SATP Core, it plays
   an important role in the overall consistency of the protocol.  For
   example, during setup, gateways can access important information
   based on the nature of the assets to be transferred, including
   technical, business, or compliance data.  This document defines the
   sequence of interactions during Setup.  These interactions among
   applications, gateways and networks lead to the binding of the two
   gateways that will then perform a specific transfer instance as
   defined in SATP Core.

   Setup is triggered by the Client Application that originates the
   transfer sequence via a call to Gateway's G1 (via API1).  The
   transfer context associated with the transfer instance conveys all
   required information about the assets to be transferred.






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2.  Stage 0 flows

   The diagram below presents the sequence of actions during the Setup
   stage.

   App1 the "Originator Application" (driven by Alice) and App2 the
   "Beneficiary Application" (driven by Bob) must interact with each
   other in Stage-0 before execution of SATP Core.  The sequence of
   interactions is as follows:

   1.  App1 (the Originator App) requests to gateway G1 (Originator
       Gateway) the creation of a transferContext (TC) related to one of
       more Tokenized Asset Records (TARs - see [3]).  We assume App1
       can access the definition of TARs, for example stored in an
       external Registry (accessing TAR definitions stored in a Registry
       by an App is outside the scope of this document.  We assume such
       operations occurred before the execution of the Setup stage).

   2.  App1 receives the transferContext ID (TCID) from the Originator
       Gateway G1.

   3.  App1 calls the relevant endpoint(s) in Network NW1 in order to
       bind the Digitized Asset Records (DARs - see [3]) with the
       specific transferContext ID.  Associating the transferContext
       with specific DARs in a Network is important, especially in case
       of competing transfer instances: the Network must associate the
       DARs with the correct transferContext ID to maintain consistency
       of locking and thus avoid deadlocks / starvation, for example,
       when different SATP transfer instances compete for the transfer
       of the same DARs.

   4.  App1 sends (propagates) the transferContext ID to App2.

   5.  App2 acknowledges propagation of the specific transferContext ID
       (via a return message to App1).

   6.  App2 calls the relevant endpoin(s) in Network NW2 in order to
       prepare creation of DARs.  This step aims at preparing NW2 for
       the transfer.  For example, ensure collateralisation of assets,
       or perform compliance verifications before the effective
       transfer.

   7.  App2 calls the gateway G2 to propagate the transferContext ID.

   8.  Gateway G2 calls G1 (via API2) to perform binding of the two
       gateways for the specific Transfer Context ID.





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   9.  At any moment after binding G2 with the Originator Gateway G1,
       App1 can start the execution of the SATP Core transfer instance.

   At the end of the execution of the transfer instance, the Apps can
   call their respective gateways (via API1) to receive an update on the
   completion status of the transfer (messages 10 to 13).  The
   completion status can be either "commit" or "rollback".












































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    App1   NW1          G1      REGISTRY        G2          NW2   App2
    ..|.....|............|......................|............|.....|..
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |
      |1:requestTC(TAR[])|          |           |            |     |
      |-----|----------->|          |           |            |     |
      |< - -|- - - - - - |          |           |            |     |
      | 2:TCID           |          |           |            |     |
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |
      |3:bindAssets(DARID, TCID)    |           |            |     |
      |---->|            |          |           |            |     |
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |
      |     |            | 4:propagateTC(TCID)  |            |     |
      |-----|------------|----------------------|------------|---->|
      |< - -|- - - - - - |- - - - - - - - - - - |- - - - - - |- - -|
      | 5:propagateTC_Ack(TCID)     |           |            |     |
      |     |            |          |           |   6:bindTC(TCID) |
      |     |            |          |           |            |<----|
      |     |            |          |           |7:propagateTC(TCID)
      |     |            |          |           |<-----------|-----|
      |     |            |  8:bindGateway(G2ID, TCID)        |     |
      |     |            |<---------------------|            |     |
      |     |            | register (TC)        |            |     |
      |9:beginSATP(TCID) |--------->|           |            |     |
      |-----|----------->|          |           |            |     |
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |
     ////////////////////// SATP CORE EXECUTION /////////////////////
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |
      |     |            |update (TCID, complete)            |     |
      |     |            |--------->|           |            |     |
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |
      |10:requestStatus(TCID)       |           |            |     |
      |-----|----------->|          |           |            |     |
      |< - -|- - - - - - |          |           |            |     |
      | 11:completionStatus         |           |            |     |
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |
      |     |            |          |           |12:requestStatus(TCID)
      |     |            |          |           |<-----------|-----|
      |     |            |          |           |- - -|- - - - - ->|
      |     |            |          |           | 13:completionStatus
      |     |            |          |           |            |     |

                           Figure 1: Stage 0 flow








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3.  Stage 0 pre-conditions

   To summarise, at the end of the Setup stage, the following conditions
   shall be met.  Only if all these pre-conditions are true the SATP
   Core transfer instance can be executed (note: completion can be
   either commit or rollback).

   *  The Originator Application (a.k.a. Client App A1, a.k.a. Alice)
      has obtained a transfer context, i.e. information that
      unambiguously defines a specific asset transfer instance related
      to sending a well-defined set of assets (referenced by TARs) from
      a given Originator application to a given Beneficiary application.

   *  NW1 is aware that this well-defined set of managed assets (owned
      by the originator) is going to be transferred for the given
      transfer context, and this at any moment in the future, based on
      G1 initiative.

   *  G1 and G2 are bound for the given transfer context TC

   *  The Beneficiary Application (a.k.a. Client App A2, a.k.a. Bob)
      knows that it will receive a well-defined set of assets for the
      given transfer context TC

   *  NW2 is aware that a well-defined set of assets will be received
      for a given beneficiary and for the given transfer context TC

4.  Annex: Transfer Context Example

   Below we give an example of a transfer context.  The following can be
   noted:

   *  The identifier of the transfer context contains a reference to the
      originator gateway address.

   *  There might be several sessions associated with a transfer
      context.  For example, in case of recovery from a crash, a new
      session might be created for the specific transfer context (the
      example shows a transfer context with two previous sessions in
      history).

   *  tarIDs refer to TAR that are stored in Registries and can be
      accessed by Gateways via API3.

   *  In order not to lock assets forever a specific transfer expiration
      time limit can be set.





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   *  Network endpoints are important for traceability reasons so it is
      clear what execution unit in the networks managed the lock/
      extinguishing (NW1) and creation (NW2) operations for the specific
      transfer context.

{
   "transferContextID": "urn:satp:transferContext:0x517BBF0c9B71f64b5807f644E1F1bacD3Afb3ec2.0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74",
   "transferStatus": "inProgress",
   "activeSessionID": "urn:satp:session:0x517BBF0c9B71f64b5807f644E1F1bacD3Afb3ec2:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74:0x06012c8cf97BEaD5deAe237070F9587f8E7A266d",
   "sessionHistory": [
      "urn:satp:session:0x517BBF0c9B71f64b5807f644E1F1bacD3Afb3ec2:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74:0x06012c8cf97BEaD5deAe237070F9587f8E7A2777",
      "urn:satp:session:0x517BBF0c9B71f64b5807f644E1F1bacD3Afb3ec2:0xf3beac30c498d9e26865f34fcaa57dbb935b0d74:0x06012c8cf97BEaD5deAe237070F9587f8E7A2888"
   ],
   "egress": {
      "gw1ID": "urn:satp:gateway:0x517BBF0c9B71f64b5807f644E1F1bacD3Afb3ec2",
      "nw1ID": "urn:satp:network:0xa9c28ce2141b56c474f1dc504bee9b0100000089000000000000000000000012",
      "nw1EndPoint": "0x6e329e9c3653a0ab99e806e2267e8e4dff4d3fbb",
      "assets": [
         {
            "assetID": "urn:tar:eip155.137:0x897374acc81080d4fb818ee8c5f8822d937d8912",
            "transferExpiration": "2023-07-26T20:20:39+00:00"
         }
      ]
   },
   "ingress": {
      "gw2ID": "urn:satp:gateway:0xc24854b8457710f98ca254308b65e18b12ca0504",
      "nw2ID": "0xa9c28ce2141b56c474f1dc504bee9b0100000001000000000000000000000012",
      "nw2EndPoint": "0x0debadd980c7eec904cf57e105e3993688107aaf"
   }
}

                  Figure 2: Transfer Context example

5.  References

   [1]        Hardjono, T., "SATP Core", Work in Progress, Internet-
              Draft, draft-ietf-satp-core, 2022,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-satp-
              core>.

   [2]        Hardjono, T., "SATP Architecture", Work in Progress,
              Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-satp-architecture, 2022,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-satp-
              architecture>.







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   [3]        Avrilionis, D. and T. Hardjono, "Asset Schema Architecture
              for Asset Exchange", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-avrilionis-satp-asset-schema-architecture, 2024,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-avrilionis-
              satp-asset-schema-architecture>.

Authors' Addresses

   Denis Avrilionis
   Compellio S.A.
   Email: denis@compell.io


   Thomas Hardjono
   MIT
   Email: hardjono@mit.edu



































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