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"scope_statement": "This provisional model owns contextual uses of Aryan as a collective identity or classification label; the registry provides insufficient evidence to identify a particular organisation, so the SOC.ORG assignment remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Disambiguation of the registry referent and the sense of Aryan intended", "Historically situated self-designations and externally assigned collective labels", "Distinctions among linguistic, cultural, political and racialized uses", "Sources, speakers and institutions asserting or contesting a classification", "Consequences of applying the label within a documented institutional context" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Grammar, vocabulary and genealogical classification owned by language models", "Biological ancestry or genetic population models", "Complete histories of peoples, regions or religions associated with particular uses", "Independent models of political movements and their doctrines", "Organisations or individuals named Aryan unless registry evidence establishes one as the intended referent" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A matching name alone does not establish an organisation: require an identifiable collective entity and evidence of its institutional continuity.", "A linguistic use must identify a language-related referent; it does not establish the ancestry or identity of its speakers.", "A historical self-designation requires evidence of who used the designation, in which language and context.", "A racialized use records the classifier's asserted criteria and ideology without adopting those criteria as biological facts.", "Uses with different speakers, periods or referents remain distinct unless evidence supports their equivalence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent type", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "collective identity label | linguistic designation | ideological classification | named organisation | personal name | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether this provisional scope and the registry's SOC.ORG placement are appropriate." }, { "name": "Attested expression", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "source spelling, script, language and explicitly identified transliteration or translation", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an English rendering from silently equating distinct expressions." }, { "name": "Designation relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "speaker or classifier → designation → claimed referent", "why_it_matters": "Separates self-identification, external classification and later interpretation." }, { "name": "Context of use", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "dated attestation linked to place, document, audience and institutional setting", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the meaning anchored to a particular use rather than assuming universal continuity." }, { "name": "Claimed membership basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "language | culture | self-identification | asserted descent | institutional rule | mixed | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Exposes the criteria being asserted without treating them as validated membership tests." }, { "name": "Interpretation status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unresolved | supported for a bounded context | disputed | contradicted by reviewed evidence", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether an agent may use an interpretation or must preserve alternatives." }, { "name": "Institutional effect", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "documented classification linked to an eligibility rule, exclusion, administrative decision or no established effect", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes descriptive mention from a classification that changes treatment." } ], "affordances": [ "Request the originating registry source and resolve whether Aryan denotes a label, a named entity or another referent.", "Annotate an occurrence with its speaker, intended sense, original expression and evidential limits.", "Compare uses across sources while preserving differences in meaning and membership criteria.", "Flag unsupported transitions from language or cultural affiliation to ancestry or racial classification.", "Trace documented institutional consequences without assigning the label to people from names, appearance or inferred ancestry.", "Link an established referent to an existing model or propose a justified registry correction." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "registry-referent-and-sense", "name": "Registry Referent and Sense", "description": "Establish what the undefined Aryan entry denotes before accepting its organisational placement.", "rationale": "The name and SOC.ORG domain alone cannot distinguish an identity label from a specific institution.", "layers": [ { "id": "originating-registry-evidence", "name": "Originating Registry Evidence", "description": "Recover the evidence that introduced Aryan into the registry.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-referent", "name": "Intended Referent", "description": "Require a source identifier and contextual description before choosing a referent type.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which originating record, identifier and description supplied the label Aryan?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Does that record identify a collective designation, a particular organisation, a person or another kind of thing?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "organisational-fit", "name": "Organisational Fit", "description": "Test whether the registry domain describes the referent rather than merely suggesting a template.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-or-designation", "name": "Institution or Designation", "description": "Distinguish a named institution with continuity and decision authority from a category applied to people.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence, if any, establishes an organisation called Aryan with a founding basis, governing authority and continuity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "institution-or-designation-q01" }, { "text": "If Aryan is a designation, which existing registry concept should it link to, and what domain correction is justified?", "kind": "action", "id": "institution-or-designation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attestation-and-self-designation", "name": "Attestation and Self-Designation", "description": "Anchor each interpretation in an identifiable expression and a documented act of designation.", "rationale": "Treating every occurrence of Aryan as the same identity can erase differences among source languages, speakers and periods.", "layers": [ { "id": "expression-and-translation", "name": "Expression and Translation", "description": "Separate the expression in a source from the terminology used to translate or discuss it.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-expression", "name": "Source Expression", "description": "Record whether Aryan occurs directly or represents an editor's translation, transliteration or interpretive label.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact expression appears in the source, and in which language and script?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-expression-q01" }, { "text": "Who renders that expression as Aryan, and what evidence supports the equivalence in this passage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "source-expression-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "speaker-and-claimed-community", "name": "Speaker and Claimed Community", "description": "Identify who applies the designation and the extent of the community they claim to describe.", "findings": [ { "id": "designation-authority", "name": "Designation Authority", "description": "Distinguish personal self-description, claims made on behalf of a community and classifications imposed by outsiders.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who uses Aryan here, and is the usage self-designation, external designation or retrospective interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "designation-authority-q01" }, { "text": "What supports extending this speaker's usage to the wider community, and what limits or counterexamples are documented?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "designation-authority-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "linguistic-cultural-and-racialized-boundaries", "name": "Linguistic, Cultural and Racialized Boundaries", "description": "Keep different classification claims separate and examine proposed connections between them.", "rationale": "An agent must not convert a statement about language into a claim about descent, racial identity or organisational membership.", "layers": [ { "id": "linguistic-and-cultural-reference", "name": "Linguistic and Cultural Reference", "description": "Determine whether a use concerns languages, speakers, practices or a claimed historical community.", "findings": [ { "id": "referent-extension", "name": "Referent Extension", "description": "Require explicit evidence for moving between a language designation and a designation of people or culture.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does Aryan denote a language grouping, its speakers, a cultural affiliation or a historical self-designation in this source?", "kind": "definition", "id": "referent-extension-q01" }, { "text": "How does the source distinguish its usage from Indo-Aryan, Iranian and Indo-European, where those terms are relevant?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "referent-extension-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "racialized-classification-claims", "name": "Racialized Classification Claims", "description": "Represent racialized meanings as attributed claims whose criteria and supporting arguments require scrutiny.", "findings": [ { "id": "asserted-racial-category", "name": "Asserted Racial Category", "description": "Record who asserts a racial category and how it is justified without making that assertion the model's own classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source explicitly gives Aryan a racial meaning, and what descent, appearance or other criteria does it assert?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "asserted-racial-category-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence evaluates those assertions and any attempted inference from language to biological ancestry?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "asserted-racial-category-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutional-use-and-agent-decisions", "name": "Institutional Use and Agent Decisions", "description": "Connect documented applications of Aryan to their consequences and to evidence-bounded agent actions.", "rationale": "The model must distinguish interpreting a label from reproducing a classification that affects people's treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "rules-and-consequences", "name": "Rules and Consequences", "description": "Examine settings in which the designation has an explicit administrative or political function.", "findings": [ { "id": "operative-classification", "name": "Operative Classification", "description": "Require a specific instrument and context before claiming that the designation determines inclusion or exclusion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated policy, law, membership rule or administrative document makes an Aryan classification operative?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "operative-classification-q01" }, { "text": "What treatment follows from that classification, and to which institution, population, jurisdiction and period does it apply?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "operative-classification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-bounded-handling", "name": "Evidence-Bounded Handling", "description": "Define how an agent resolves ambiguity, reports contested uses and handles requests to apply the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretation-and-assignment", "name": "Interpretation and Assignment", "description": "Allow contextual interpretation while preventing unsupported assignment of identity or ancestry to individuals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence is sufficient to annotate this occurrence with a particular sense, and when must it remain unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretation-and-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "If asked to classify a person as Aryan, how should the agent identify the requested sense, avoid proxy inference and distinguish a documented historical classification from an endorsed identity claim?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretation-and-assignment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended registry sense is unresolved; SOC.ORG alone does not identify an organisation.", "Check the originating registry record and any Wikidata identifier before choosing between historical terminology and a specifically named entity.", "This description reflects recalled knowledge; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Aryan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Interpretation of ancient Indo-Iranian texts and identities.", "Study of racial ideology, antisemitism and Nazi persecution." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Aryan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating Aryan as a scientifically valid biological race.", "Conflating ancient self-designations, language classifications and modern racist categories.", "Assigning an organisational identity without evidence identifying a particular organisation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Aryan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Ancient South Asian and Iranian uses require interpretation within their respective linguistic, religious and historical contexts.", "In modern European racial ideology, the term acquired meanings substantially different from its ancient uses." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Aryan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Indo-Aryan", "difference": "A recognised branch of Indo-Iranian languages; it does not establish an Aryan biological race." }, { "name": "Indo-Iranian", "difference": "A linguistic grouping encompassing Indo-Aryan, Iranian and Nuristani languages, rather than a modern racial category." }, { "name": "Aryan race", "difference": "A discredited racial construct that must be distinguished from ancient uses of related self-designations." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Aryan this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What originating registry record establishes the intended referent of vr.tr.aryan?", "Is SOC.ORG an erroneous placement, or does the entry denote a specific organisation named Aryan?", "Which historical, linguistic or ideological senses belong to this entry, and which already have authoritative models elsewhere in the catalogue?", "Which primary attestations and scholarly interpretations support the translation and contextual meanings of Aryan relevant to this entry?", "Which institutional applications and contested interpretations must be represented to support the actual tasks for this model?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Aryan, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to distinguish documented senses of Aryan, assess the evidence and authority behind each use, and avoid treating a contested identity label as an established organisation or biological classification.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 81 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Aryan, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 81 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Aryan from another, and a Aryan from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Aryan sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Aryan from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Aryan passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Aryan between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Aryan, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Aryan is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Aryan.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Aryan and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Aryan, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Aryan and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Aryan sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What Aryan is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does Aryan take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of Aryan, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in Aryan and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of Aryan may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Aryan have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Aryan came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Aryan and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Aryan is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Aryan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Aryan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Aryan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }