security-canon/README.md
tegwick 8ab4891043 Adopt SEC-DSM 1.0 as the secrets-practice standard.
Insert DevOps Secrets Management Canon v1.0 unchanged, with a placement preface that keeps shared roots upstream. Publish it on the federation card.

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security-canon

Orthogonal vocabulary and canonical model for security-related concepts.

SecurityCanon extends InfoTechCanon with a focused security domain model, in the same architectural role that CommerceCanon holds for commercial terminology and InterfaceCanon for interface terminology.

Its subject is architecture, not implementation: the relationships in which authority is exercised, described before and independently of the mechanisms that enforce them. Its first contribution is the Mode of Authority vocabulary — seven auth modes (USE, OBSERVE, OPERATE, ADMINISTER, GOVERN, CONSTRUCT, SOVEREIGN) read relative to a scope. CARING and the access-control and identity models stay in InfoTechCanon, at the implementation layer and as shared roots; see SEC-ADR-001.

Flavor project
Domain infotech
Workplan prefix SECURITY-WP-
Upstream canon InfoTechCanon
Service surface none — reuses InfoTechCanon's

Start with INTENT.md and SCOPE.md. Agent instructions are in AGENTS.md; active work is in workplans/.

Document What it holds
SEC-ADR-001 the boundary decision — what stays upstream, and why
SEC-ADR-002 the terminology separation — why AuthorityContext, not Subject
Mode of Authority assessment review of the v0.1 draft and the proposed canon structure
Actor/Subject implications the one open terminology question, analysed

Status

Draft vocabulary, stable secrets standard. The Mode of Authority vocabulary is published as a canon artifact with machine-readable modes and dimensions; the v0.1 research draft is retained in research/ as provenance. Stable promotion of that vocabulary needs reviewed mappings and concrete consumer evidence. See SECURITY-WP-0001.

The DevOps Secrets Management Standard (SEC-DSM 1.0.0) is the normative secrets-practice guide. Gate House teaches it; ops-mason and ops-warden follow it. See SECURITY-WP-0002.

Orientation

Start here For
Vocabulary card the seven modes and the notation, on one page
Mode of Authority the canon artifact
DevOps Secrets Management Standard the secrets-practice standard (SEC-DSM v1.0)
Disambiguation operator or OPERATE? role, plane, or mode?
Mapping to InfoTechCanon how it relates to the access-control model and CARING