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Retain the offline reference repository — 2026-08-23

Decision: retain zone-engine as an offline reference-conformance repository while security-zones_v0.1 remains proposed in net-kingdom canon.

Authority: zone-engine owner under the operator-directed execution of ZONE-WP-0002; canon and control ownership remain unchanged.

Maintenance contract

  • Maintainer: zone-engine.
  • Authoritative standard: net-kingdom canon, never the local pointer.
  • Allowed changes: canon-lineage refresh, conformance fixtures, and a concrete revision requested by canon or an adopting control owner.
  • Forbidden expansion: runtime/API/storage, live policy decisions, implicit workload discovery, central exception enforcement, or local stance authority.
  • Routine backlog: none.

Archive triggers

Reassess archival when any of the following is true:

  1. net-kingdom accepts or supersedes v0.1 and owns the durable conformance assets;
  2. the adopting control owners absorb the fixtures and no shared reference is needed; or
  3. no adopting control depends on this reference surface.

Archiving or renaming the Forgejo repository remains an attended operator action. This decision deliberately performs neither.