I-D Action: draft-krickert-pipestream-03.txt

Internet-Draft draft-krickert-pipestream-03.txt is now available.

   Title:   PipeStream: A Recursive Entity Streaming Protocol for Distributed Processing over QUIC
   Author:  Kristian Rickert
   Name:    draft-krickert-pipestream-03.txt
   Pages:   74
   Dates:   2026-07-23

Abstract:

   This document specifies PipeStream, a recursive scatter-gather
   streaming protocol for hierarchical task decomposition and
   distributed processing over QUIC transport.  PipeStream enables the
   decomposition (scattering) of complex, arbitrary workloads into
   constituent sub-tasks, their transmission across distributed
   processing nodes, and subsequent rehydration (gathering) at
   destination endpoints.

   While application-layer protocols like gRPC provide stream
   multiplexing, PipeStream embeds a hierarchical state machine directly
   into the protocol.  It employs a dual-stream architecture consisting
   of a data stream for payload transmission and a control stream for
   tracking completion status and maintaining distributed consistency.

   PipeStream defines a generic 2-bit Data Layer field for entity
   representation, leaving the concrete payload semantics to application
   profiles.  To ensure consistency across parallel processing
   pipelines, the protocol implements checkpoint blocking, guaranteeing
   that all constituent parts of a decomposed workload are successfully
   processed before rehydration operations commence.

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