| Message  | 
     Meaning  | 
     U to S?  | 
     S to U?  | 
     After Receiving  | 
     Expected Response  | 
     Data in Message  | 
     Optional in Message  | 
   
   
     | OK | 
     Proposal acceptable or data transfer successful | 
     Yes | 
     Yes | 
     PROP or TXD | 
     none | 
     MD5 hash of agreement or data transferred | 
       | 
   
   
     | PROP | 
     Here's a Proposal | 
     Yes | 
     Yes | 
     any time | 
     OK, SRY, or PROP | 
     Text of a proposal | 
     Signature of initiator, fingerprint of previous Proposal | 
   
   
     | SRY | 
     Sorry - request not processed | 
     Yes | 
     Yes | 
     PROP, TXD | 
     PROP or none | 
     Reason code and {MD5 hash of proposal, or MD5 hash of data} | 
     Which practices are unacceptable (To Be Designed) | 
   
   
     | TXD | 
     Transfer Data | 
     Yes | 
     Yes | 
     any time | 
     none, OK or SRY | 
     Data element names and values to be written, as requested | 
     Agreement |