. Advertise identity (host)
| Seek contact (guest)
:
. Signal
| Respond (mimic signal)
. Signal
| Respond
. Signal
| Respond
. Open Connection
| Request Contact

. Select Maximum Transmission Rate
| Confirm Rate
. Test transmission rate

| Repeat test for verity
. Advertise protocols (for error correction!)
| Select protocol(s)
. Confirm protocols

| Form confirmation signal and send
. Verify previous steps
| Acknowledge verification

. Advertise identity
| Acknowledge identity
. Require identity of guest
| Provide credentials
. Test credentials
. Signal authentication or rejection (authentication)
| Confirm authentication / repeat
. Recognize relationship

| Activate relational status
. Transmission of data
| Reception of data
. Verification
| Verification
[ … ]
. Await connection closure
| close connection
. | ( clean and process results or remnants)

— a sketch of a protocol abstracted from communications in nature