PARTIALLY QUALIFIED / ACTIVE RESEARCHSovereign Control
- Question
- How narrowly can authority be bound to one operation, purpose and domain without accidental widening?
- Why it matters
- Narrow authority limits blast radius and prevents one approval becoming general power.
- Already qualified
- Independent authority boundaries and the common ALLOW / DENY / ESCALATE model are established.
- Still open
- Overlapping grants, broader operation-scoped authority and cross-domain generalisation.
- Related evidence / papers
- RMV1 branch evidence; common control contract.
QUALIFIED BASELINE / ACTIVE GENERALISATIONFederation & Projection
- Question
- How far can independent domains cooperate while remaining independently authoritative?
- Why it matters
- Shared state is useful; merged authority is a different and much riskier architecture.
- Already qualified
- Bounded two-domain projection and canonical joined-fabric composition are qualified.
- Still open
- More domains, longer chains, degraded links and stronger physical/network separation.
- Related evidence / papers
- Bounded projection contract; Shared Sovereign Fabric.
ACTIVE RESEARCHSelective State & Scaling
- Question
- What is the minimum local state needed to decide safely, and when should missing state be hydrated?
- Why it matters
- A large represented estate cannot require every domain to materialise every fact for every decision.
- Already qualified
- Bounded selective state/hydration exists; 409,600 / 15-kernel is a closed tested stress point.
- Still open
- Hydration policy, freshness rules, minimum sufficient state and scaling laws beyond tested rungs.
- Related evidence / papers
- RMV1; data-centre SIL evidence.
QUALIFIED BASELINE / ACTIVE RESEARCHSTOP & Containment
- Question
- How far should STOP propagate, how quickly, and where can failure remain local?
- Why it matters
- A useful interrupt must limit further consequence without unnecessarily collapsing unrelated domains.
- Already qualified
- Common bounded software STOP semantics are qualified.
- Still open
- Federated propagation, latency, failure locality and domain-safe physical behaviour.
- Related evidence / papers
- STOP constitution and bounded STOP evidence.
ACTIVE RESEARCHRecovery & Reconciliation
- Question
- How should partial cross-domain effects be resolved without inventing success or causing duplicate consequences?
- Why it matters
- Distributed systems routinely lose certainty before they lose state.
- Already qualified
- Bounded receipt and reconciliation contracts exist.
- Still open
- Partial cross-domain effects, safe resume/replay and uncertain-effect finality.
- Related evidence / papers
- Receipt contract; institutional handoff, distributed-compute and bounded agent-execution patterns.