Recognition distinctions
| Layer | Question | What it does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| Cryptographic verification | Does the signature and presentation verify? | Issuer authority, citizenship, legal recognition or trust acceptance. |
| Issuer authority | Was the issuer permitted to make this exact claim? | Permission for the requested action. |
| Civic recognition | Does Eviulon recognize the subject's internal standing? | Recognition by an external state or organization. |
| External legal recognition | Does a foreign legal order accept a status or document? | Full diplomatic recognition of Eviulon. |
| Trust-policy acceptance | Do verified facts satisfy this relying party's bounded policy? | Universal trustworthiness or reputation. |
Trust domains
A relying party declares trusted issuers, accepted schemas, maximum evidence age, required authority and prohibited conditions. Eviulonian constitutional systems must also reject policies that erase protected status or substitute a universal score for due process.
Unknown issuers
An unknown issuer remains unresolved or denied for the requested purpose according to policy. The system must not crash, invent trust or describe the issuer as fraudulent solely because it is unfamiliar.
Privacy
Pairwise or scoped identifiers, selective disclosure, local policy evaluation and privacy-aware status checks reduce issuer, verifier and cross-domain correlation.
Failure behavior
When status, authority, evidence or policy cannot be resolved, the result is explicit: stale evidence, insufficient evidence, policy unavailable or cannot determine. An outage does not create or erase citizenship.
Machine-readable records
Authority and record status
Responsible authority: External Relations Directorate and State Registry.
No external issuer, federation agreement, recognition act or operational endpoint is claimed by this framework.
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