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Demand: Emission Cadence activity scope — silence while a source is not running
Status: proposed (change proposal to the Emission Cadence standard)
Date: 2026-09-21
Source: net-kingdom (source owner), domain infotech
Owner: InfoTechCanon Emission Cadence standard (standards/emission-cadence)
Consumer evidence: net-kingdom/local-identity/emission-cadence-findings.md (commit 116643f)
Feedback: feedback/2026-09-21-net-kingdom-emission-cadence-declaration.md
Workplan: INFO-WP-0029 (T04 records it; no design workplan exists yet)
Demand signal
The first source-owned declaration came from a source that can emit only while
an attended process runs: local-identity serve, plus attended CLI
invocations. For such a source, silence has two meanings. Silence while the
process runs may be a finding. Silence while the process is not running
carries no information. The contract cannot tell the two apart:
expected-rateneeds a floor.expected_min: 0is the only honest value, and with it silence means nothing.heartbeat-or-reconciliationwith a heartbeat assumes a process that can emitnothing-to-report. Outside a session no such process exists.
The consumer fell back to reconciliation only. That preserves correctness but leaves the observer unable to bound silence at all.
Options named by the consumer
- An activity-scope or session-bounded form. The source emits start/stop (or open/close) markers, and the cadence expectation applies only inside the bounded interval.
- An explicit statement in the standard that session-scoped sources are out of scope. Such sources would then declare reconciliation only, and observers would not evaluate their silence.
Constraints on a disposition
- A new form changes the wire schema (
0.1). Under the0.xrules that is allowed with migration guidance. Existing declarations stay valid only if the form is additive. - Declarations pinned before the change stay pinned to their digest. Stable promotion needs declarations against one fixed reading of the contract, so a schema change before stable resets which pin later evidence should use.
- This demand is not accepted. Choosing between the options, or rejecting both, is a canon-owner decision.