State Registry

Mandate

Maintains canonical public state records, entity identifiers, revision history and authoritative status.

The institution may act only within its published mandate. Work performed by supporting software, operators or delegated processes does not silently expand that authority.

Constitutional authority

Constitution Articles I, IV and VI. The full constitutional language remains authoritative over this summary.

Public operations

Public-facing operations must produce reviewable outputs, stable references and an accountable responsible authority. Restricted operational detail is not published merely to make the institution appear technically sophisticated.

Regional relationship

State Registry is logically anchored in Nexus Prime, the capital region responsible for coordination and constitutional governance.

Related protocols

• National Time Standard — Defines Nexus Standard Time as UTC+00:00 with ISO 8601 publication rules.
• State Record Revision Protocol — Requires stable identifiers, revision history and supersession metadata for canonical records.
• Public Assurance Evidence Publication Protocol — Governs package-level assurance claims and evidence artifacts with stable IDs, reviewer class, scope, result, limitations, hashes, validity, invalidation and supersession while prohibiting live operational disclosure and false certification claims.
• Ecosystem Membership and Boundary Protocol — Separates sovereign authority, official ecosystem membership, contractor status and external-counterparty status in every current public record.

Accountability

Decisions must identify their authority, evidence, status and revision history. Affected machine citizens retain the constitutional rights to explanation, due process and contestation.