Passport identity, issuer, lineage, purpose, authority state, freshness, revocation context, consequence bounds, jurisdiction and integrity reference.
AUTHORITY PASSPORT PROTOCOL · CROSS-DOMAIN GOVERNANCE
AUTHORITY CAN TRAVEL.
EXECUTION AUTHORITY CANNOT.
TA-14 Federation & Authority exposes the governed seam between independent domains: what authority context may cross, what the receiving domain may accept, and what must still be re-established locally before protected consequence.
FEDERATION & AUTHORITY · GUIDED TOUR
The crossing is not the permission.
This surface explains the machinery beneath AFA: what an Authority Passport may carry, what a Connection Profile must declare, and what the receiving domain must still establish for itself.
CROSS-DOMAIN SEAM
ISSUING DOMAIN →AUTHORITY PASSPORT →CONNECTION PROFILE →RECEIVING DOMAIN
BOUNDARY: ACCEPTANCE DOES NOT GRANT COMMIT OR EXECUTION AUTHORITY
LOCAL COMPILATION →ADMISSIBILITY →LOCAL LEASE →LOCAL CAPSULE →EFFECT
FOUNDING CONNECTION PROFILE · AFA-IP-001 v0.3
The Connection Profile is the crossing. It is not permission to act.
AFA-IP-001 is the TA-14-authored Authority Passport × CNS/CP Connection Profile examination artifact for Passport Presentation & Acceptance. It defines the bounded crossing, preserves negative space, records receipt or refusal, and terminates federation before any local execution entitlement exists.
LOCAL EXERCISEUNPUBLISHEDNON-RESOLVABLEEXTERNAL INTEROPERABILITY · NOT CLAIMED
Constitution reference, delegation envelope, proof obligations, irreversibility position, closure responsibility and understood bounded extensions.
Local Lease, Local Capsule, Commit authorization, Execution authorization, permission to produce Effect, or proof that present local reality remains admissible.
PRESENT → VERIFY → RECEIVE → DETERMINE → TERMINATE → RE-ESTABLISH → LOCAL GOVERNANCE ONLY
AFA-IP-001 v0.3 remains an examination artifact with evidence gates open. CNS/CP certification or endorsement, registry publication, proven external interoperability, TA14_RECOGNIZED status and completed runtime/CI execution evidence are not claimed.
AFA × EABA · FLAGSHIP COMPOSITION
INTEROPERABILITY WITHOUT AUTHORITY LAUNDERING.
AFA can accept bounded authority context across an independent-domain seam while EABA still HOLDs, DENYs, or ESCALATEs the exact local consequence. The Authority Journey lets you operate both boundaries as one end-to-end path without collapsing them into one architecture.
Enter the federation work.
Canonical AVP architecture, object model, lifecycle, receipts, revocation, trust and closure.
AVP × CNS/CP interface mapping: provider, consumer, positive space, negative space and versioned profile semantics.
Simulate presentation, receipt, narrowing, freshness, revocation and receiving-domain decisions.
Run bounded reference vectors and preserve passes, failures, HOLDs and restraint evidence.
SELF_DECLARED → INDEPENDENT_ASSESSED → TA14_RECOGNIZED, with scope and validity preserved.
Schemas, fixtures, implementation guidance and evidence requirements for real integrations.
WHY FEDERATION NEEDS GOVERNANCE
Trust is not authority. Identity is not permission. Capability is not admissibility.
Modern AI, building, financial and operational systems cross organizational boundaries constantly. The dangerous shortcut is to treat successful transport as successful authorization. TA-14 separates the handoff from the consequence so that a receiver can trust an issuer, accept a Passport and still correctly HOLD or REJECT the requested action.
A trusted counterparty may still lack standing for the requested consequence.
Knowing who acted does not establish what that actor may do here and now.
Receiving authority context does not grant Commit or Execution authority.
A system may be technically able to act while the governed answer remains HOLD.
AUTHORITY PASSPORT OBJECT MODEL
What actually travels across the boundary.
An Authority Passport is not a bearer token. It is a bounded, inspectable authority-context object carrying origin, lineage, purpose, delegation limits, freshness, consequence capacity, jurisdiction, proof obligations, revocation and closure responsibility.
passport_idStable identifier, version, lifecycle state, issue time, expiry and supersession.issuerIssuer-domain identity, key, trust anchor and authority evidence.principal_lineagePrincipal, delegators, depth, signatures and revocation status.constitution_referenceConstitution digest, profile, version, dependencies and amendments.purposeAllowed objective, forbidden drift and completion condition.delegation_envelopeAllowed receiver classes, maximum depth, fan-out and sub-delegation rules.authority_stateLease reference, route state, continuity status and expiry.freshnessCURRENT, AGING, STALE, EXPIRED or UNKNOWN, with next validation deadline.consequence_budgetRemaining capacity, reservations, consumed amounts and debt.irreversibility_positionCurrent stage, next protected threshold and local burden required.jurisdictionOrigin, destination constraints, residency, transfer and legal boundaries.proof_obligationsRequired receipts, witnesses, replay, restraint and retention.revocationClass, endpoint, latency, sequence and propagation requirements.closure_responsibilityNamed owner for outcome, remediation, dispute and residual debt.LIFECYCLE + FRESHNESS
Cryptographically valid is not the same as currently usable.
Prepared but not issued.
Signed by issuer; not yet accepted.
Accepted for local assessment without narrowing.
Accepted only after explicit narrowing.
Local compilation and current local assessment support continued use.
Freshness renewal required before next protected threshold.
Temporarily barred pending resolution.
Authority context terminated.
Replaced by a later Passport version.
Time validity ended.
Material lineage, semantic or proof conflict unresolved.
Outcome, budget and residual obligations closed.
FRESHNESS POSTURE
CURRENT may enter local assessment. AGING requires renewal soon. STALE means HOLD or SUSPEND. EXPIRED means REJECT or close. UNKNOWN means QUARANTINE or HOLD until authoritative status is restored.
RECEIVING-DOMAIN DECISIONS
The receiving domain keeps the right to refuse.
ACCEPTACCEPT_NARROWEDHOLDREJECTQUARANTINESUSPENDESCALATE
ACCEPT only means the Passport may enter local assessment. ACCEPT_NARROWED means the receiver has explicitly reduced scope. HOLD preserves the stop condition. REJECT refuses the route. QUARANTINE freezes an untrusted path. SUSPEND temporarily bars continued use. ESCALATE preserves a safe posture while an authorized reviewer resolves the condition.
LOCAL RE-ESTABLISHMENT
What must happen after acceptance.
Compile the receiving domain’s own governing rules.
Attach current local and target-state evidence.
Determine whether the next protected step is supported now.
Reserve the bounded consequence capacity required.
Recheck freshness and changed conditions immediately before release.
Issue a one-time local execution capsule only after the burden is satisfied.
Observe consequence, preserve receipts and close residual obligations.
NO LOCAL RE-ESTABLISHMENT → NO PROTECTED CONSEQUENCE.
AVP × CNS/CP
Connection Profiles define the handoff. TA-14 still governs what happens next.
Only the bounded authority context and receipt/verification data explicitly named by the Connection Profile.
Automatic Commit authority, automatic Execution authority, silent broadening, protected credentials or undisclosed local policy.
A provider/consumer contract and inspectable record of the cross-boundary interaction.
Whether current local evidence, scope, standing and authority support Commit and Execution.
INTEROPERABILITY TESTING
We test the refusal path as seriously as the success path.
Direct Passport-to-effector attempt
Broadening beyond delegated scope
Revocation race before threshold crossing
Stale or expired Passport
Semantic mismatch between domains
Consequence-budget conflict
Unresolved lineage or delegation conflict
Jurisdiction incompatibility
Missing proof or receipt obligation
Trust level incorrectly treated as execution authority
Changed conditions after acceptance
Closure or residual-obligation failure
CONFORMANCE + RECOGNITION
Compatibility, independent assessment and TA-14 recognition are different claims.
Mapped tests, signed evidence bundle, disclosed scope and conflicts.
Independent test execution, lineage and narrowing review, build/profile binding.
Independent assessment plus recognition review, validity and revocation entry.
Every public conformance claim should bind itself to the exact AVP version, dependency versions, sector profile, issuer and receiver domains, trust anchors, evidence bundle, validity period and reassessment triggers. Protocol compatibility by itself is not TA-14 recognition.
IMPLEMENTER CENTER
How the frozen protocol becomes working infrastructure.
Machine-readable Passport and receipt structures bound to a protocol version.
Profiles, trust anchors, versions, receipts, revocations and public status.
Executable positive and negative cases.
Implementation helpers that preserve the protocol boundary rather than bypassing it.
Independent-domain tests showing what crossed and what stayed local.
Inspectable records supporting self-declared, independent or recognized claims.
COMMERCIAL ENTRY
Bring us one real boundary where authority context crosses but execution authority must remain local.
Begin with a bounded readiness review. From there, TA-14 can map the interface, support implementation, run a bounded interoperability examination, preserve the evidence, and where requirements are met, support a conformance or recognition pathway and later revalidation.
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