Publishes sec-authority:ModeOfAuthority v0.2.0 with machine-readable
auth-modes.yaml and dimensions.yaml, and moves the v0.1 draft verbatim to
research/ as provenance — it had been sitting in spec/, which the Repository
Layout Standard reserves for implementation guidance.
Terminology separation decided as SECURITY-DEC-2026-002 / SEC-ADR-002. The
v0.1 Subject dimension becomes AuthorityContext, because InfoTechCanon's
access-control model already owns Actor and Subject and binds them as "Subject
is the access-control view of an actor"; reusing the pair for two distinct
parties would have made one word mean two things across the canons. Operator
versus OPERATE, Build Plane versus CONSTRUCT, Policy Plane versus GOVERN, Audit
Plane versus EvidenceBoundary and Condition versus Activation are separated
rather than merged, and Scope, AccessOperations, Purpose and PrincipalType are
declared imports. Namespace sec-authority: reserved; itc-caring: and itc-access:
stay upstream and are not aliased.
Two of the draft's open questions are closed. CONSTRUCT stays distinct from
GOVERN, the test being the object of authority — the artifact versus the
constraint it must satisfy — which keeps "who may edit the policy" separable
from "who decides what it must say". Substrate authority becomes a DOMINATES
relation between Authority Realms carrying dominance_kind, observable and
evidence_boundary, which makes the relative-sovereignty principle checkable
instead of merely asserted.
Orientation surfaces published: the one-page vocabulary card, the ten-question
design heuristic promoted from the draft's appendix to section 3 of the
artifact, the role/plane/mode disambiguation page, and the cross-layer mapping
to InfoTechCanon with its deliberate blanks where one layer has no equivalent.
Generalising CARING section 32 beyond non-human subjects is deliberately not
bundled in; it is InfoTechCanon's to accept as a demand signal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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