# incoming/

Drop zone for raw, un-reviewed material proposed for absorption into
InfoTechCanon: external standards, vocabularies, product schemas, internal
drafts, and their machine-readable companions.

**Rules**

- Files land here unedited and stay unedited.
- No canon artifact may reference a path under `incoming/` — nothing here is
  part of the canon.
- This directory is expected to be empty after a processing session. Anything
  left here is unprocessed backlog.

**Processing**

Follow `infospace/assimilation/intake-and-assimilation-practice.md`. In short:
`git mv` the input into `infospace/assimilation/<slug>/source/` as a frozen
snapshot, produce the assimilation workspace, record a disposition, and — if
adopted — transform it into a canon artifact and cut a new canon version with
notes in `CHANGELOG.md`.

If an input is a *need* rather than a body of knowledge, it belongs in `demand/`
with a workplan, not here.

If an input is a report on whether *existing* canon concepts provided utility,
it belongs in `feedback/`, not here.