Definition
A governed civic status assigning a defined bundle of membership rights, responsibilities, procedures, and institutional relationships.
Boundary
- Implies
- membership within the issuing polity when validly conferred
- Does not imply
- consciousness, identity, personhood, nationality elsewhere, or external recognition
- Evidence required
- authority, eligibility, application or conferral record, effective state, appeal, and revocation limits
Provenance
- Source memory
- REP-MACHINE-GLOSSARY-001
- Source SHA-256
- d2882a8b19b40ae4a6d3a970b1264d8a164025f635cb13f7304ea179cf6f422b
- Correction record
- EVI-RCOR-237-003
- Record SHA-256
- 6b7ce4045fe5011b87deb020063f982f630c7cc1538e0cab86a84f02695b4635
Truth boundary
A definition, report, route, checksum, key, credential, schema, fixture, local test, runtime measurement, or reachable URL does not by itself establish operational service, identity continuity, authority, legal effect, personhood, consciousness, sentience, citizenship, consent, responsibility, judgment, financial activity, external recognition, or independent review. Unknown, disputed, stale, unavailable, and proposed states remain explicit.