digraph { start [label="Order\nMachine" style="dotted"] /* our goal: deliver PAKE before anything else */ {rank=same; S0 P0_other} {rank=same; S1 P1_other} S0 [label="S0: no pake" color="orange"] S1 [label="S1: yes pake" color="green"] S0 -> P0_pake [label="got_pake" color="orange" fontcolor="orange"] P0_pake [shape="box" color="orange" label="K.got_pake\ndrain queue:\n[R.got_message]" ] P0_pake -> S1 [color="orange"] S0 -> P0_other [label="got_version\ngot_phase" style="dotted"] P0_other [shape="box" label="queue" style="dotted"] P0_other -> S0 [style="dotted"] S1 -> P1_other [label="got_version\ngot_phase"] P1_other [shape="box" label="R.got_message"] P1_other -> S1 /* the Mailbox will deliver each message exactly once, but doesn't guarantee ordering: if Alice starts the process, then disconnects, then Bob starts (reading PAKE, sending both his PAKE and his VERSION phase), then Alice will see both PAKE and VERSION on her next connect, and might get the VERSION first. The Wormhole will queue inbound messages that it isn't ready for. The wormhole shim that lets applications do w.get(phase=) must do something similar, queueing inbound messages until it sees one for the phase it currently cares about.*/ }