cmd/mesh-controller/seats_test.go

@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ func TestEverySeatIsListedIncludingTheOnesNobodyHolds(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestANodeSeatListsEveryMachineHoldingIt(t *testing.T) {
 	rows, _ := seatsHeld(catalogue.Seats(), []catalogue.Held{
-		{Claim: "the-packet-filter", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode, Node: "node2", Module: "nftables"},
+		{Claim: "node-packet-filter", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode, Node: "node2", Module: "nftables"},
-		{Claim: "the-packet-filter", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode, Node: "anchor", Module: "nftables"},
+		{Claim: "node-packet-filter", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode, Node: "anchor", Module: "nftables"},
 		// Resolved twice, reported once: a machine is one holder however many passes saw it.
-		{Claim: "the-packet-filter", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode, Node: "anchor", Module: "nftables"},
+		{Claim: "node-packet-filter", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode, Node: "anchor", Module: "nftables"},
 	})
 	for _, r := range rows {
-		if r.Seat != "the-packet-filter" {
+		if r.Seat != "node-packet-filter" {
 			continue
 		}
 		if len(r.Holders) != 2 || r.Holders[0].Node != "anchor" || r.Holders[1].Node != "node2" {

internal/catalogue/manifest.go

@@ -192,6 +192,14 @@ type Manifest struct {
 	// that every new module would force its predecessors to update.
 	Claims []Claim `json:"claims,omitempty"`
 
+	// DefinesSeats are the seats this module defines for itself (novox/hq ADR 0121). The control
+	// plane defines the system seats — `mesh-*` and `node-*` — and a module may define its own,
+	// named outside that namespace, to coordinate its own instances: the mesh enforces
+	// one-holder-per-scope for it without knowing what it means. A module's declared seat is the
+	// only non-system name it may then claim; a claim to a name neither the mesh nor the module
+	// defines is refused.
+	DefinesSeats []Claim `json:"seats,omitempty"`
+
 	// Capabilities the machine must have. A different field from Requires because the remedy
 	// differs: a missing module can be assigned, and a missing capability means the wrong
 	// machine.

internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ func TestTwoThingsDecidingWhatAMachineAsksAreRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("resolv-conf and resolved-split-dns were both assigned to one machine")
 	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the-resolver-configuration") {
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "node-resolver-config") {
 		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not say what was claimed: %v", err)
 	}
 }

internal/catalogue/seats.go

@@ -37,23 +37,36 @@ var seats = []Seat{
 	{Name: "mesh-store", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "postgres-database", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0079"},
 	{Name: "mesh-broker", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "amqp", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0079"},
 	{Name: "the-artifact-store", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "artifact-store", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0075"},
-	{Name: "the-catalogue", Scope: ScopeMesh, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0110"},
+	{Name: "mesh-catalog", Scope: ScopeMesh, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
+	// Deferred renames (novox/hq ADR 0121): these deliver a provision, so renaming them is a
+	// delivering-seat migration with a mesh-wide cascade if a holder stops resolving mid-flight.
+	// They keep their names until that migration is done deliberately, apart from the node-* pass.
 	{Name: "npm-package-registry", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "npm-package-registry", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0109"},
 	{Name: "git", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "git", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0111"},
-	{Name: "the-build-machine", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0110"},
+	{Name: "mesh-build-machine", Scope: ScopeMesh, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
-	{Name: "the-dns-port", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0110"},
+	{Name: "node-dns-resolver", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
-	{Name: "the-intrusion-prevention", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0110"},
+	{Name: "node-intrusion-prevention", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
-	{Name: "the-packet-filter", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0110"},
+	{Name: "node-packet-filter", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
+	// Deferred (novox/hq ADR 0121): renaming to mesh-private-network is a scope + server/client
+	// model change, not a rename, so it stays until that is built.
 	{Name: "the-private-network", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0110"},
-	{Name: "the-resolver-configuration", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0110"},
+	{Name: "node-resolver-config", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
-	{Name: "the-showcase", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0110"},
 	// The program that manages the machine's own network. It delivers nothing: its holder only
 	// keeps the manager and the mesh from contradicting each other — the resolver file left to the
 	// mesh, the private network's interface left alone — and never declares a link, an address or
 	// a wireless network, because the link is the only channel a fix could arrive on. A seat
 	// rather than a condition in the resolver's module, so a machine running two managers is
 	// refused at assignment instead of found by the resolver being rewritten (novox/hq ADR 0117).
-	{Name: "the-uplink", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0117"},
+	{Name: "node-uplink", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0117"},
+}
+
+// A system seat name is the control plane's namespace: `mesh-*` for a mesh-wide role, `node-*` for
+// a per-node one (novox/hq ADR 0121). A claim to a system name the mesh does not define is refused;
+// any other name is a module's own to define and claim. Some of the mesh's own seats predate this
+// convention and are not yet renamed (git, npm-package-registry, the-artifact-store,
+// the-private-network) — those are in the set, so they resolve by name, not by prefix.
+func isSystemSeatName(name string) bool {
+	return strings.HasPrefix(name, "mesh-") || strings.HasPrefix(name, "node-")
 }
 
 // Seats is every seat the mesh defines, in reading order.
@@ -84,30 +97,60 @@ func SeatDelivering(provision string) (Seat, bool) {
 	return Seat{}, false
 }
 
-// claimProblems is what is wrong with a manifest's claims against the set.
+// claimProblems is what is wrong with a manifest's claims and the seats it defines.
 //
-// Three refusals, each naming the seat: a seat the mesh does not define, a seat claimed at another
+// A claim is one of three things (novox/hq ADR 0121): a **system seat** the control plane defines —
-// scope, and a seat that delivers a provision claimed by a module that does not provide it — which
+// checked for scope and, if it delivers a provision, that the claimant provides it; a **system name
-// would make the module the mesh's answer for something it cannot answer.
+// the mesh does not define** (`mesh-*`/`node-*`) — refused, because that namespace is the control
+// plane's; or a **module-defined seat** — valid only when this manifest also declares it, since a
+// module may coordinate its own instances through a seat of its own but may not invent one by
+// claiming it. A module's own seat declaration may not sit in the system namespace or shadow a
+// system seat.
 func claimProblems(m Manifest) []string {
 	var problems []string
-	for _, c := range m.Claims {
+
-		seat, known := SeatNamed(c.Name)
+	defined := map[string]Claim{}
-		if !known {
+	for _, d := range m.DefinesSeats {
+		if _, isSystem := SeatNamed(d.Name); isSystem || isSystemSeatName(d.Name) {
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s claims %q, which is not a seat this mesh defines (novox/hq ADR 0110) — "+
+				"%s defines a seat %q in the mesh's own namespace; a module's seat is named outside "+
-					"the seats are: %s", m.Module, c.Name, seatNames()))
+					"mesh-*/node-* (novox/hq ADR 0121)", m.Module, d.Name))
 			continue
 		}
-		if c.At() != seat.Scope {
+		defined[d.Name] = d
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
+	}
-				"%s claims %s at scope %q, and %s is a %s seat",
+
-				m.Module, c.Name, c.At(), c.Name, seat.Scope))
+	for _, c := range m.Claims {
+		if seat, known := SeatNamed(c.Name); known {
+			if c.At() != seat.Scope {
+				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
+					"%s claims %s at scope %q, and %s is a %s seat",
+					m.Module, c.Name, c.At(), c.Name, seat.Scope))
+			}
+			if seat.Delivers != "" && !providesAt(m, seat.Delivers, seat.Scope) {
+				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
+					"%s claims %s, whose holder answers for %q, and %s does not provide %q at %s scope",
+					m.Module, c.Name, seat.Delivers, m.Module, seat.Delivers, seat.Scope))
+			}
+			continue
 		}
-		if seat.Delivers != "" && !providesAt(m, seat.Delivers, seat.Scope) {
+		if isSystemSeatName(c.Name) {
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s claims %s, whose holder answers for %q, and %s does not provide %q at %s scope",
+				"%s claims %q, which is a seat in the mesh's own namespace (mesh-*/node-*) that it "+
-				m.Module, c.Name, seat.Delivers, m.Module, seat.Delivers, seat.Scope))
+					"does not define (novox/hq ADR 0121) — the seats are: %s", m.Module, c.Name, seatNames()))
+			continue
+		}
+		d, ours := defined[c.Name]
+		if !ours {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
+				"%s claims %q, which is not a seat this mesh defines and not one %s declares itself "+
+					"(novox/hq ADR 0121) — the seats are: %s", m.Module, c.Name, m.Module, seatNames()))
+			continue
+		}
+		if c.At() != d.At() {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
+				"%s claims its own seat %s at scope %q, having declared it at %q",
+				m.Module, c.Name, c.At(), d.At()))
 		}
 	}
 	return problems

internal/catalogue/seats_test.go

@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ func TestTheSeatsAreAClosedSetAndEachNamesItsDecision(t *testing.T) {
 			delivered[s.Delivers] = s.Name
 		}
 	}
-	if len(Seats()) != 15 {
+	if len(Seats()) != 14 {
-		t.Errorf("the mesh defines %d seats rather than 15; the set is closed, so a change here is "+
+		t.Errorf("the mesh defines %d seats rather than 14; the set is closed, so a change here is "+
 			"a decision (novox/hq ADR 0110): %s", len(Seats()), seatNames())
 	}
 }
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func TestTheSeatsAreAClosedSetAndEachNamesItsDecision(t *testing.T) {
 // contradicting the mesh; a requirement resolving to it would make the manager the mesh's answer
 // for something, and the manager's link is the one thing the mesh must never be able to break.
 func TestTheUplinkIsANodeSeatThatDeliversNothing(t *testing.T) {
-	seat, known := SeatNamed("the-uplink")
+	seat, known := SeatNamed("node-uplink")
 	if !known {
 		t.Fatalf("the uplink is not a seat; the seats are: %s", seatNames())
 	}
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ func TestTheUplinkIsANodeSeatThatDeliversNothing(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the uplink is %+v, not a node seat delivering nothing by ADR 0117", seat)
 	}
 	// And a manager's module can hold it without providing anything.
-	raw := []byte(`{"module":"networkmanager","version":"1","claims":[{"name":"the-uplink","scope":"node"}]}`)
+	raw := []byte(`{"module":"networkmanager","version":"1","claims":[{"name":"node-uplink","scope":"node"}]}`)
 	if _, err := ParseManifest(raw); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("a network manager's module could not hold the uplink: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -83,11 +83,31 @@ func TestAClaimOnASeatTheMeshDoesNotDefineIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not say the seat is unknown: %v", err)
 	}
 	// And it says what the seats are, because "no" without the list sends somebody reading code.
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the-packet-filter") {
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "node-packet-filter") {
 		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not list the seats: %v", err)
 	}
 }
 
+// A module may define its own seat and claim it — the mesh enforces exclusivity without knowing
+// what it means (novox/hq ADR 0121). But it may not define one in the mesh's own namespace.
+func TestAModuleDefinesAndClaimsItsOwnSeat(t *testing.T) {
+	ok := []byte(`{"module":"showcase","version":"1","seats":[{"name":"the-showcase","scope":"node"}],` +
+		`"claims":[{"name":"the-showcase","scope":"node"}]}`)
+	if _, err := ParseManifest(ok); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a module could not define and claim its own seat: %v", err)
+	}
+	// Claiming a name it neither the mesh nor the module defines is still refused.
+	if _, err := ParseManifest(claimed(`[{"name":"the-anything","scope":"node"}]`)); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a module claimed a seat nobody defines")
+	}
+	// A module may not carve its seat out of the mesh's own namespace.
+	bad := []byte(`{"module":"x","version":"1","seats":[{"name":"node-mine","scope":"node"}],` +
+		`"claims":[{"name":"node-mine","scope":"node"}]}`)
+	if _, err := ParseManifest(bad); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "own namespace") {
+		t.Fatalf("a module defined a seat in the mesh's namespace and was not refused: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestASeatClaimedAtAnotherScopeIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	_, err := ParseManifest(claimed(`[{"name":"npm-package-registry","scope":"node"}]`))
 	if err == nil {