Dependency profile
- Dependency owner
- Lawful public authority with plural vendors
- Affected population
- Residents, applicants, institutions, officials
- Substitutability
- CONSTRAINED
- Switching cost
- VERY_HIGH
- Replacement time
- Scenario-specific; must be measured and tested, not assumed.
- Concentration level
- VERY_HIGH
- Non-Domination Test
- PASS_REQUIREMENTS_DEFINED
Abuse and failure paths
Abuse: Opaque rule encoding, vendor government, loss of discretion, impossible exit.
Failure: Model error, policy drift, outage, compromised update.
Required exit and alternatives
Exit: Human-readable law, appeal, manual fallback, open rules, vendor substitution.
Portability: Exportable case records and reasons with privacy protection.
Interoperability: Open APIs, schemas, decision receipts and audit trails.
Independent alternative: Independent implementation and trained public staff.
Emergency handback: Suspend automated adverse action; restore ordinary lawful procedure.
Disconfirming evidence
- Failed exit drill
- Unavailable independent alternative
- Retaliation for attempted exit
- Material portability gap
- Undisclosed common-mode dependency
Truth boundary
Static risk-governance record. It does not prove an operational service, market share, capacity, dependency, alternative, or successful exit drill.
Authority and record status
Responsible authority: Relevant public authority.
Static concentration-governance record; no operational alternative or exit drill is proven.
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