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+# RESPONDENT protocol
+
+The {{i:*RESPONDENT* protocol}}{{hi:*RESPONDENT*}} is one half of a {{i:survey pattern}}.
+In this pattern, a surveyor sends a survey, which is broadcast to all
+peer respondents.
+The respondents then have a chance to reply (but are not obliged to reply).
+The survey itself is a timed event, so that responses
+received after the survey has finished are discarded.
+
+> [!TIP]
+> This protocol is useful in solving voting problems, such as leader
+> election in cluster configurations, as well as certain kinds of service
+> discovery problems.
+
+The _RESPONDENT_ protocol is the respondent side, and the
+[_SURVEYOR_][surveyor] protocol is the surveyor side.
+
+### Socket Operations
+
+The [`nng_respondent0_open`][nng_respondent_open] functions create a
+respondent socket.
+This socket may be used to receive messages, and then to send replies.
+A reply can only be sent after receiving a survey, and generally the
+reply will be sent to surveyor from whom the last survey was received.
+
+Respondents may discard a survey by simply not replying to it.
+
+[Raw mode][raw] sockets ignore all these restrictions.
+
+### Context Operations
+
+This protocol supports the creation of [contexts][context] for concurrent
+use cases using [`nng_ctx_open`][nng_ctx_open].
+
+Incoming surveys will be routed to and received by only one context.
+Additional surveys may be received by other contexts in parallel.
+Replies made using a context will be returned to the the surveyor that
+issued the survey most recently received by that context.
+The restrictions for order of operations with sockets apply equally
+well for contexts, except that each context will be treated as if it were
+a separate socket.
+
+### Protocol Versions
+
+Only version 0 of this protocol is supported.
+At the time of writing, no other versions of this protocol have been defined.
+{{footnote: An earlier and incompatible version of the protocol was used in older
+pre-releases of [nanomsg][nanomsg], but was not released in any production version.}}
+
+### Protocol Options
+
+The _respondent_ protocol has no protocol-specific options.
+
+### Protocol Headers
+
+The _RESPONDENT_ protocol uses a {{ii:backtrace}} in the header.
+This is more fully documented in the [_SURVEYOR_][surveyor] manual.
+
+[nng_respondent_open]: TODO.md
+[nng_ctx_open]: TODO.md
+[nanomsg]: TODO.md
+[context]: TODO.md
+[raw]: TODO.md
+[surveyor]: ./surveyor.md