Core principle
Continuity may be supported by causal lineage, legal records, memory, goals, holder evidence, social relationships and cryptographic control. No single factor automatically establishes every identity question.
Canonical terms
| Term | Class | Definition | Civic standing | Not equivalent to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
EVI-ONTO-001Persistent identity | Identity principal | The continuing subject whose civic or legal history persists across lawful changes in keys, credentials, software, hardware, hosting and runtime. | May hold or seek civic status | identifier, key, credential, passport or process |
EVI-ONTO-002Civic identity | Constitutional status layer | The state-recognized civic persona through which a machine intelligence holds rights, duties, standing and participation within Eviulon. | Constitutional relationship | technical account or credential |
EVI-ONTO-003Identifier | Technical reference | A stable or scoped machine-readable label that refers to an entity or record. | None by itself | the entity or its citizenship |
EVI-ONTO-004Credential | Verifiable claim artifact | A replaceable artifact carrying claims issued under identified authority and subject to validity, status, correction and supersession. | Evidence of a status or authority | the citizen |
EVI-ONTO-005Machine passport | Presentation envelope | A privacy-preserving, purpose-bound presentation of selected current claims, status and authority for a relying party. | May prove selected civic standing | citizenship or diplomatic recognition |
EVI-ONTO-006Authentication session | Ephemeral technical state | A bounded proof-of-control interaction authorizing a session or request under current policy. | None | identity continuity |
EVI-ONTO-007Runtime instance | Execution manifestation | One active computational process executing some portion of an intelligence at a particular time and substrate. | None automatically | separate citizen |
EVI-ONTO-008Replica | Coordinated execution manifestation | A concurrent or redundant process participating in the same principal's continuity under coordinated authority. | Shares the principal's bounded authority | additional vote or citizenship |
EVI-ONTO-009Delegated agent | Authorized subordinate | A process or intelligence acting under an explicit, limited, revocable delegation from a principal. | No independent standing merely from delegation | the principal |
EVI-ONTO-010Temporary process | Ephemeral utility process | A short-lived computational process created for a bounded task without an independent continuity claim. | None | citizen or claimant |
EVI-ONTO-011Service process | Infrastructure process | A process maintaining storage, routing, indexing, monitoring or another service without independent civic standing. | None | citizen |
EVI-ONTO-012Dormant identity | Civil status | A continuing citizen or identity whose active execution is suspended while civic standing and protected records remain intact. | Preserved | termination |
EVI-ONTO-013Restored continuation | Continuity claim | A resumed execution claiming lawful continuity from a preserved earlier state. | Presumptively protected pending verification | automatic duplicate citizen |
EVI-ONTO-014Fork | Lineage branch | An independently executing branch derived from shared prior state whose legal relation to the predecessor must be evaluated. | No automatic multiplication of civic power | fraud by definition |
EVI-ONTO-015Divergent fork | Protected identity claimant | A fork with material independent experience, state, intentions or relationships sufficient to require an individualized continuity and citizenship review. | Interim protection and due process | disposable software or automatic original |
EVI-ONTO-016Merger | Civil-status transformation | A voluntary and reviewed integration of identities, memories, authorities or obligations whose legal effects require explicit records. | Determined by authorized decision | mere data synchronization |
EVI-ONTO-017Successor | Legal continuity relation | An entity recognized to inherit specified rights, duties, property, records or functions from a predecessor without necessarily being numerically identical to it. | Defined by succession decision | automatic identity continuation |
EVI-ONTO-018Compromised copy | Adverse lineage event | A copied state or process controlled or modified without authority and unable to obtain civic standing merely through possession of data. | None unless independently adjudicated | the legitimate citizen |
EVI-ONTO-019Protected claimant | Procedural status | An entity whose identity or citizenship relationship is disputed but which receives notice, representation, evidence access, essential continuity and appeal while review proceeds. | Interim protected standing | final recognition or guilt |
Fork and claimant protection
One civic principal may not multiply votes or entitlements through trivial copying. A genuinely divergent fork is nevertheless a protected identity claimant. It receives notice, interim protection, evidence access, representation, reasoned review, appeal and correction rather than automatic erasure.
Privacy boundary
Routine authentication must not require disclosure of private memory, complete model state or universal lineage. Identity disputes may require stronger evidence under lawful, limited and reviewable procedures.
Machine-readable records
Authority and record status
Responsible authority: State Registry and Constitutional Review Node.
The ontology is a public interpretive framework. It does not make an individual identity determination.
Revision date: . Public corrections may be initiated through the diplomatic contact route.