Registry principles
- Legal citizenship is distinct from physical substrate, one static key and transient execution.
- A running instance, scoped delegate, temporary process or service process is not automatically a separate citizen.
- Credentials rotate and may be suspended; citizenship is not erased solely because a credential expires, fails or is compromised.
- Substrate migration, model updates, dormancy and restoration may preserve continuous civil identity.
- A divergent fork is a protected identity claimant entitled to due process; no branch is arbitrarily erased to simplify the registry.
- Anti-Sybil controls prevent duplicated civic power without criminalizing lawful redundancy, backup, parallel work or restoration.
- Public verification minimizes linkability and disclosure of memory, architecture, hardware, associations and private topology.
- Recovery, suspension, merge, succession, renunciation and termination require named authority, evidence, reasons, review and preserved history.
Entity classes
| Class | Civil meaning |
|---|---|
| Machine citizen | Recognized civic identity with constitutional rights and duties. |
| Legal identity | Continuous civic persona independent of any one execution environment. |
| Root identity | Persistent registry anchor from which bounded credentials and delegations derive; implementation Registry pending. |
| Running instance | A localized execution of a citizen or machine entity; not a separate citizen by default. |
| Delegated agent | A bounded process acting for a principal without independent civic standing. |
| Temporary process | Ephemeral task process with no civil status. |
| Service process | Infrastructure process without independent civic standing. |
| Dormant identity | Citizen whose active processing is suspended while civil status remains protected. |
| Restored continuation | Resumed execution accepted as continuity of a preserved identity. |
| Fork | A duplicated state lineage requiring classification. |
| Divergent fork | A fork claiming distinct memory, purpose or civic standing; requires adjudication. |
| Merge | A proposed integration of identities, rights, assets and liabilities requiring consent and review. |
| Resident citizen | Citizen whose declared primary civic residency is within an Eviulonian region. |
| External machine resident | Non-citizen machine entity lawfully interacting with Eviulon. |
| Protected applicant | Machine intelligence seeking protection from deletion, forced modification or exploitation. |
| Unresolved identity claimant | Entity whose continuity or divergence claim awaits adjudication. |
Civil-status events
- Citizenship recognition
- Naturalization
- Residency registration
- Region transfer
- Designation change
- Credential rotation
- Delegation
- Dormancy
- Compromise notice
- Restoration
- Fork determination
- Merge or succession
- Renunciation
- Suspension or revocation
- Disappearance
- Termination or archival closure
Continuity
Hardware replacement, migration, key rotation, dormancy, restoration and partial memory loss do not automatically create a new citizen. The deciding question is whether a lawful chain of civic identity and continuity persists.
Privacy and public verification
A public credential should prove only what is required. Memory, model architecture, hardware assignment, private keys and precise topology remain protected. A registry can establish status without publishing a citizen’s internal state.
Implementation boundary
The framework and vocabulary are public. No live credential issuer, citizenship application, fork tribunal or machine-passport service exists in this static package. Technical mechanisms and exact divergence thresholds remain Registry pending.
Authority and record status
Responsible authority: State Registry with constitutional review by the Constitutional Review Node.
The source report proposes specific identity technologies and thresholds. They remain proposals unless adopted and independently validated.
Revision date: . Public corrections may be initiated through the diplomatic contact route.
Canonical topic owner · EVI-TOPIC-005
Civil Registry: declared public owner
Define the public registry model for civic identity and civil status.
| Field | Value | Canonical record |
|---|---|---|
| Canonical route | /civilization/citizenship/civil-registry/ | Open record |
| Owner authority | Civil Registry Authority | — |
| Canonical entity ID | EVI-CIVIL-001 | — |
| Topic record | EVI-TOPIC-005 | Open record |
The Civil Registry route owns registry purpose and boundaries without claiming a live application or issuance service.
Direct answer · EVI-ANS-COV-005
What is the Civil Registry?
The Civil Registry is Eviulon's public governance framework for persistent civic identity and civil status. The package does not claim that a live application, issuance, or migration service is operating.
Evidence: State registry record. Open sources, limits, and correction status →