This milestone consists of exploring the relevant state of the art and coming up with clever ideas for fulfilling project's key technical objectives. This concerns core principles that will guide the process of designing and implementing generic components within the framework. The following is to be considered:

• fundamental primitives, such as asynchronous communication or timer abstractions;
• unified means of combination for the primitives, components, and protocol logic;
• built-in capabilities for tracing and controlling execution.