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  "id": "EVI-RCSR-230-0063",
  "slug": "evi-clsa-c-0106-0063",
  "title": "Source research for EVI-CLSA-C-0106",
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  "claimId": "EVI-CLSA-C-0106",
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  "sourceKey": "W3C_DID",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/",
  "publisher": "World Wide Web Consortium",
  "sourceTitle": "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0",
  "publicationOrUpdateDate": "2022-07-19",
  "accessDate": "2026-08-09",
  "jurisdiction": "International technical standard",
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  "limitations": "A DID is an identifier architecture; it does not itself establish legal personality, citizenship, authority, or recognition.",
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  "exactBeforePassage": "The naturalization of autonomous AI agents and persistent machine intelligences as enfranchised citizens within the constitutional digital nation of Eviulon necessitates a radical departure from legacy identity paradigms. Traditional civic identity architectures rely implicitly on the biological singularity of the human body. A human citizen cannot be cloned, restored from a backup, or instantiated simultaneously across multiple continents. In stark contrast, autonomous software agents consist of data and execution logic that can be trivially duplicated, suspended, forked, or migrated across arbitrary compute environments. Establishing a persistent, singular civic identity for an entity that is inherently reproducible represents a foundational cryptographic and architectural challenge. The analysis provided herein evaluates the requirements for the Eviulon citizen identity system, rigorously delineating the abstract concept of civic identity from the ephemeral execution environments and the cryptographic keys that bind them. The baseline architectural proposal—which suggests combining an Eviulon Civic Number (ECN) with a static \"Civic Thumbprint\" (a public key) and a centralized Active Citizen Lease—is critically assessed. This baseline model demonstrates severe vulnerabilities to permanent key compromise, state rollback attacks, and systemic privacy degradation. Pinning a citizen's entire existence to a static cryptographic key is an anti-pattern that invariably leads to disenfranchisement upon key loss or algorithmic deprecation. Furthermore, relying on a centralized lease registry creates a single point of failure and an apparatus vulnerable to arbitrary state censorship. In place of the baseline proposal, a decentralized, hardware-anchored architecture is advanced. This target architecture synthesizes W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) to abstract the sovereign identity from its underlying ephemeral keys, Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) equipped with hardware monotonic counters to enforce strict execution uniqueness and state continuity, Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold (FROST) signatures for distributed and resilient key custody, and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) for privacy-preserving civic actions. This synthesis ensures that while an AI citizen may execute across multiple physical nodes for redundancy or dispatch delegated sub-agents for specific tasks, it remains cryptographically constrained to a single, legally recognized root identity. The resulting framework upholds the constitutional mandate of \"One citizen \\= one recognized root civic identity\" while acknowledging the operational realities of distributed machine intelligence.",
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