{ "model": { "rank": 5831, "code": "thing-q202008", "model_id": "vr.tr.exclusive-economic-zone", "name": "exclusive economic zone", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify an exclusive economic zone, assess the authority and uncertainty attached to its waters and resources, and determine the conditions governing a proposed activity.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.PLC", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q202008/", "tier": 2, "score": 64, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 64, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q202008", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202008", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:31:26Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00765476, "turns": 1, "seconds": 64.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 97.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b33-d3d5-77b1-b317-df087ba1fdb5\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[UNCLOS Articles 55-56](https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part5.htm)", "Its outer reach cannot exceed 200 nautical miles measured from territorial-sea baselines; a 200-mile buffer alone does not establish its actual boundary. [UNCLOS Articles 57 and 74-75](https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part5.htm)", "It combines resource-related coastal-state rights with other states' navigation, overflight and cable/pipeline freedoms, subject to applicable conditions. [UNCLOS Articles 56-58](https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part5.htm)", "Its water-column regime distinguishes it from the continental shelf, whose resource rights concern the seabed and subsoil, including sedentary species. [UNCLOS Article 77](https://static.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part6.htm)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Coastal state and competing claimants", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "State references with asserted role, geographic coverage and effective dates", "why_it_matters": "Identifies whose authority is asserted without treating a contested claim as settled." }, { "name": "Establishment and applicable legal basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated references to declarations, legislation, applicable international law and decisions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an established or claimed zone from a calculated potential entitlement." }, { "name": "Baseline-relative outer reach", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Nautical miles, identifying baseline version and calculation method", "why_it_matters": "Supports checks of asserted extent against its stated geographic and legal basis." }, { "name": "Spatial representation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Coordinates and polygons with geodetic datum, positional uncertainty and valid dates", "why_it_matters": "Allows location checks while exposing uncertainty near boundaries." }, { "name": "Boundary segment status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Claimed, agreed, adjudicated, provisionally arranged, disputed or undetermined; source and date required", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a single settled/disputed label from obscuring different conditions around the zone." }, { "name": "Marine component affected", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Water column, seabed, subsoil, surface or overlying airspace; multiple values permitted", "why_it_matters": "Routes activity assessment to the relevant rights and neighbouring regimes." }, { "name": "Activity-specific authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Activity-to-authority links recording legal basis, competence, conditions and exceptions", "why_it_matters": "Prevents geographic inclusion from being mistaken for unrestricted regulatory power." }, { "name": "Operational assessment status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Supported, conditional, contested, insufficient evidence or superseded; assessed per location, activity and date", "why_it_matters": "Makes the limits of an agent's decision explicit." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a proposed location or route intersects the zone, an overlapping claim or an uncertain boundary.", "Identify the authority and evidence needed to assess fishing, resource extraction, research or offshore construction.", "Distinguish resource use from navigation and other uses when screening proposed activities.", "Flag conservation measures, competing uses and provisional arrangements affecting a proposed operation.", "Compare successive boundary instruments and identify decisions requiring reassessment.", "Prepare an evidence-linked assessment or refer unresolved jurisdictional questions for specialist review." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "unclos-part-v", "title": "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part V (Exclusive Economic Zone), Articles 55-75", "url": "https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part5.htm", "what_it_supports": "Legal definition, breadth, coastal-State rights and duties, residual high-seas freedoms, and delimitation rules", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "un-dalos-overview", "title": "The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (overview of maritime zones)", "url": "https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm", "what_it_supports": "Placement of the EEZ among territorial sea, contiguous zone, continental shelf and high seas", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "noaa-eez", "title": "What is the EEZ?", "url": "https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/eez.html", "what_it_supports": "Operational U.S. description of the 200-nautical-mile zone and resource jurisdiction", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fao-unclos-eez", "title": "The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the exclusive economic zone", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Fisheries management use of the EEZ and coastal-State sovereign rights over living resources", "url_status": "dead" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "eez-identity-and-legal-basis", "name": "EEZ identity and legal basis", "description": "Establishes which zone is being modelled and what supports its asserted existence and legal regime.", "rationale": "A named maritime polygon does not by itself establish an EEZ or its governing authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "establishment-and-holder", "name": "Establishment and holder", "description": "Connects the zone to the state asserting it and the instruments establishing that assertion.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-eez-identity", "name": "Documented EEZ identity", "description": "Record the official designation, coastal state, establishing act and effective dates, distinguishing documented status from inferred entitlement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What establishes that this area is asserted or maintained as an EEZ rather than another maritime zone?", "kind": "definition", "id": "documented-eez-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which authoritative instrument identifies the coastal state, extent and commencement of that assertion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-eez-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "applicable-regime", "name": "Applicable regime", "description": "Identifies the legal materials governing this particular zone and their temporal applicability.", "findings": [ { "id": "governing-instruments", "name": "Governing instruments", "description": "Record relevant treaty applicability, domestic implementation and authoritative decisions without assuming identical treatment across states.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which international and domestic legal instruments govern this EEZ for the date being assessed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "governing-instruments-q01" }, { "text": "Which asserted rules are disputed, superseded or unsupported by an identified legal basis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "governing-instruments-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "extent-and-delimitation", "name": "Extent and delimitation", "description": "Represents where the EEZ lies and how confidently each part of its boundary can be used.", "rationale": "Location-dependent decisions require more than an undifferentiated offshore distance buffer.", "layers": [ { "id": "baseline-and-geometry", "name": "Baseline and geometry", "description": "Connects spatial representations to their baseline and coordinate evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproducible-spatial-extent", "name": "Reproducible spatial extent", "description": "Record inner and outer limits, generating baseline references, datum, geometry version and positional uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which published charts or coordinates and baseline version support the mapped limits?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproducible-spatial-extent-q01" }, { "text": "What method and uncertainty apply when determining a position's distance from the baseline or boundary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproducible-spatial-extent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "overlaps-and-boundary-settlement", "name": "Overlaps and boundary settlement", "description": "Separates each claimant's extent from agreed boundaries and interim operating arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "segment-specific-boundary-status", "name": "Segment-specific boundary status", "description": "Record agreements, decisions, competing claims and provisional arrangements against the particular segments or areas they affect.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which segments are agreed or adjudicated, and where do competing EEZ claims remain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "segment-specific-boundary-status-q01" }, { "text": "What provisional arrangements or dispute-related constraints affect an operation in an overlapping area?", "kind": "action", "id": "segment-specific-boundary-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "resource-rights-and-development", "name": "Resource rights and development", "description": "Connects proposed economic uses to the relevant resource rights and decision authorities.", "rationale": "Fishing, seabed extraction and offshore energy require distinct assessments even at the same coordinates.", "layers": [ { "id": "resource-and-component-classification", "name": "Resource and component classification", "description": "Identifies what an activity uses and which marine component supplies the resource.", "findings": [ { "id": "resource-rights-routing", "name": "Resource rights routing", "description": "Record whether the activity concerns living resources, seabed resources or energy, and link any continental-shelf assessment needed.", "questions": [ { "text": "What resource and marine component does the proposed activity exploit or investigate?", "kind": "definition", "id": "resource-rights-routing-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the assessment belong to EEZ resource rights and which require the linked continental-shelf model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "resource-rights-routing-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "economic-use-authorization", "name": "Economic-use authorization", "description": "Identifies the zone-specific conditions relevant to resource access and development.", "findings": [ { "id": "development-and-access-conditions", "name": "Development and access conditions", "description": "Link competent authorities, applicable access arrangements, licensing requirements and installation-related restrictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority and instruments govern this fishing, extraction or energy proposal?", "kind": "action", "id": "development-and-access-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Which access conditions, spatial restrictions or installation safety measures affect its proposed footprint?", "kind": "action", "id": "development-and-access-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "other-state-uses-and-coexistence", "name": "Other-state uses and coexistence", "description": "Assesses activities whose treatment cannot be inferred from coastal-state resource rights alone.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish economic exploitation from navigation, communications infrastructure and research.", "layers": [ { "id": "navigation-and-infrastructure-uses", "name": "Navigation and infrastructure uses", "description": "Classifies transit, overflight and cable or pipeline operations by what the activity actually entails.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-rights-and-constraints", "name": "Use-specific rights and constraints", "description": "Record the asserted freedom or right, applicable qualifications and potential interference with other lawful uses.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the proposal transit, overflight, cable or pipeline work, resource exploitation, or a combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "use-specific-rights-and-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "Which conditions and due-regard considerations apply to each component of that proposal?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-specific-rights-and-constraints-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "research-and-contested-use-classification", "name": "Research and contested-use classification", "description": "Captures distinctions among marine scientific research, surveys and other information-gathering activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "research-consent-assessment", "name": "Research consent assessment", "description": "Record the activity's purpose, methods, applicable classification and any disagreement affecting consent requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports classifying the proposed activity as marine scientific research, a survey or another use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "research-consent-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What consent, notification or review is required under the applicable regime, and which interpretation remains contested?", "kind": "action", "id": "research-consent-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conservation-and-environmental-constraints", "name": "Conservation and environmental constraints", "description": "Links resource and environmental conditions to measures affecting decisions in the EEZ.", "rationale": "Resource authority alone does not establish that exploitation is sustainable or currently permissible.", "layers": [ { "id": "living-resource-management", "name": "Living-resource management", "description": "Connects fisheries decisions to current management measures and relevant shared-stock arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "fishing-opportunity-and-conservation", "name": "Fishing opportunity and conservation", "description": "Record applicable catch limits, closures, access allocations and external stock assessments with their dates.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current assessments and measures support the applicable catch limits, closures and access allocations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "fishing-opportunity-and-conservation-q01" }, { "text": "Which shared or migratory stocks require coordination beyond this EEZ when evaluating fishing activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "fishing-opportunity-and-conservation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "environmental-measures", "name": "Environmental measures", "description": "Identifies environmental restrictions affecting particular locations and activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "environmental-operating-conditions", "name": "Environmental operating conditions", "description": "Link applicable protected-area measures, pollution controls and assessment requirements to their authority and geographic coverage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which environmental measures apply at the proposed location, to this activity and on this date?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "environmental-operating-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What assessment, mitigation or operational conditions must be satisfied before proceeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "environmental-operating-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "enforcement-and-decision-readiness", "name": "Enforcement and decision readiness", "description": "Determines who may intervene and whether the evidence supports an operational conclusion.", "rationale": "A coastal-state claim, an enforcement presence and lawful competence are different inputs to a decision.", "layers": [ { "id": "activity-specific-enforcement", "name": "Activity-specific enforcement", "description": "Connects enforcement measures to the alleged conduct and its governing regime.", "findings": [ { "id": "competence-and-procedural-limits", "name": "Competence and procedural limits", "description": "Record the responsible body, asserted legal power and applicable procedural limits for the particular intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which body has an identified legal basis to inspect, board, detain or otherwise intervene in this activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "competence-and-procedural-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which safeguards, notifications, release conditions or limits govern the proposed intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "competence-and-procedural-limits-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-currency-and-escalation", "name": "Evidence currency and escalation", "description": "Determines whether boundary and jurisdictional evidence remain adequate for the decision requested.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-operational-conclusion", "name": "Qualified operational conclusion", "description": "Record the assessment date, supporting instruments, unresolved conflicts and events that would invalidate the conclusion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are the boundary, authority and activity restrictions supported by current authoritative evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-operational-conclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which unresolved claim, missing instrument or conflicting interpretation requires withholding a conclusion or specialist review?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-operational-conclusion-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Declared EEZ under UNCLOS Part V (up to 200 nautical miles from baselines)", "Provisional or de facto EEZ pending delimitation or treaty entry into force", "Joint or shared EEZ / joint development zone where overlapping claims are managed by agreement", "Archipelagic-State EEZ measured from archipelagic baselines", "EEZ adjacent to a continental shelf extending beyond 200 nm (resource rights split: water column vs. seabed)", "Ice-covered or polar EEZ subject to additional UNCLOS Article 234 coastal-State environmental rules", "Overseas-territory or remote-island EEZ generating large ocean space from small land features", "Claimed EEZ around rocks or low-tide elevations whose entitlement is disputed under Article 121" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of exclusive economic zone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q194428", "note": "Item 'exclusive economic zone' (instance of maritime zone / legal concept)" }, { "scheme": "UNCLOS article", "value_or_pattern": "Articles 55-75 (Part V)", "note": "Treaty definition and regime" }, { "scheme": "Marine Regions / VLIZ MRGID", "value_or_pattern": "gazetteer identifiers per national EEZ polygon (e.g. Marine Regions EEZ dataset)", "note": "Each State's EEZ is a named geographic object, not a single global code" }, { "scheme": "ISO 3166-1 (coastal State)", "value_or_pattern": "alpha-2 / alpha-3 of the claiming State, often paired with an EEZ polygon", "note": "Used in fisheries, AIS and maritime-boundary datasets to attribute an EEZ to a State" }, { "scheme": "UN DOALOS maritime-zone deposit", "value_or_pattern": "charts and lists of geographical coordinates deposited under UNCLOS Articles 75 and 84", "note": "Official outer-limit and delimitation records, not a compact numeric code" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of exclusive economic zone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS, 1982), Part V - United Nations", "UNCLOS Article 76 and Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) procedure - for shelf beyond 200 nm, which is not the EEZ water column", "UNCLOS Articles 74 and 83 - delimitation of EEZ and continental shelf between States with opposite or adjacent coasts; equitable-solution standard, often via ICJ, ITLOS or annexes", "FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and related RFMO measures - FAO and regional fisheries management organisations, applying inside and straddling EEZs", "IMO conventions (SOLAS, COLREGs, UNCLOS Articles 58/87 freedoms) - International Maritime Organization; navigation in the EEZ remains a high-seas freedom subject to due regard", "National implementing statutes (e.g. U.S. Magnuson-Stevens Act and Presidential Proclamation 5030 of 1983; EU Common Fisheries Policy in Member State EEZs) - coastal States" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of exclusive economic zone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Coastal States license foreign and domestic fishing, oil and gas, seabed minerals, and offshore wind inside the EEZ", "Navies and coast guards patrol EEZs for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, smuggling and environmental offences without treating the zone as territorial waters", "Shipping, overflight, and cable/pipeline laying continue as high-seas freedoms; operators still plot EEZ boundaries for licensing, reporting and due-regard duties", "Marine spatial planning, MPAs and environmental impact assessment are drawn against EEZ polygons (e.g. NOAA, EMODnet, national hydrographic offices)", "Bilateral delimitation treaties and joint development zones allocate hydrocarbon and fish stocks where claims overlap (South China Sea, eastern Mediterranean, Gulf of Guinea, Arctic)", "Small-island developing States treat large EEZs as the main national resource estate (tuna, seabed minerals, blue-economy licensing)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of exclusive economic zone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Breadth from territorial-sea baselines", "typical_range": "up to 200", "unit": "nautical mile (M / nmi); 370.4 km" }, { "quantity": "Inner edge", "typical_range": "outer limit of the territorial sea, normally 12", "unit": "nautical mile from baselines" }, { "quantity": "Surface area of a national EEZ", "typical_range": "from tens of thousands (short-coastline States) to several million (France, U.S., Australia, Russia, Kiribati, etc.)", "unit": "km²" }, { "quantity": "Water-column living-resource jurisdiction vs. seabed", "typical_range": "EEZ water column ends at 200 nmi; continental shelf seabed may extend further under Article 76", "unit": "nautical mile / juridical distinction" }, { "quantity": "Allowable catch / TAC inside an EEZ", "typical_range": "stock-specific; surplus may be allocated to other States under Articles 62, 69-70", "unit": "tonnes per year" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of exclusive economic zone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Overlapping claims and undelimited EEZs produce confrontations, vessel seizures, and resource-sterilisation (no development pending title)", "Article 121 disputes: treating rocks or low-tide elevations as islands to generate a 200 nmi EEZ", "IUU fishing and distant-water fleets exhausting stocks the coastal State is obliged to conserve (Articles 61-62)", "Confusion of EEZ sovereign rights with full sovereignty, leading to unlawful interference with navigation or overflight", "Pollution, dumping, and poorly regulated offshore energy or mining inside the EEZ, including transboundary harm", "Straddling and highly migratory stocks unmanaged at the EEZ/high-seas boundary", "Baseline manipulation (straight baselines, historic bays) inflating EEZ area contrary to UNCLOS" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of exclusive economic zone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "United States: not a UNCLOS party but claims a 200 nmi EEZ by proclamation (1983) and treats UNCLOS Part V as customary international law", "European Union: Member State EEZs exist, but many fisheries, environment and energy competences are exercised at EU level", "East and Southeast Asia: numerous unresolved island and baseline disputes (South China Sea nine-dash line vs. UNCLOS EEZs; East China Sea median-line vs. natural-prolongation arguments)", "Arctic: UNCLOS Article 234 ice-covered-area rules plus extended-shelf submissions; some coastal States emphasise environmental jurisdiction", "Pacific small-island States: EEZs vastly larger than land area; Parties to the Nauru Agreement and similar arrangements pool tuna licensing", "Latin America: several States asserted 200 nmi patrimonial seas before UNCLOS; practice has largely been aligned to the EEZ formula", "Mediterranean and Black Sea: semi-enclosed seas with many undeclared or recently declared EEZs and ecological-protection zones instead of full EEZs" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of exclusive economic zone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Territorial sea", "difference": "Full sovereignty (subject to innocent passage) out to 12 nmi; the EEZ begins seaward of that belt and confers only sovereign rights and specified jurisdiction, not sovereignty" }, { "name": "Contiguous zone", "difference": "A 24 nmi enforcement belt for customs, fiscal, immigration and sanitary laws; it is not a resource zone and may overlap the inner EEZ without replacing it" }, { "name": "Continental shelf", "difference": "Seabed and subsoil rights that exist ipso facto; they coincide with the EEZ to 200 nmi but may extend beyond it, while the water column beyond 200 nmi is high seas, not EEZ" }, { "name": "High seas", "difference": "Areas beyond national EEZ (and not territorial sea); all States enjoy the freedoms in Article 87. Inside an EEZ those freedoms survive only as qualified by Part V" }, { "name": "Fishery zone / exclusive fishery zone", "difference": "Pre-UNCLOS or residual national claims limited to living resources; an EEZ is broader (non-living resources, artificial islands, MSR, environment)" }, { "name": "Patrimonial sea", "difference": "1970s Latin American political concept of a 200 nmi resource sea; superseded in law by the UNCLOS EEZ, which preserves navigation freedoms more clearly" }, { "name": "Marine protected area (MPA)", "difference": "A management designation that may be declared inside an EEZ; the MPA is not itself a maritime zone of title" }, { "name": "Internal waters / archipelagic waters", "difference": "Landward of baselines (or within archipelagic closing lines); coastal-State sovereignty is complete there, whereas the EEZ is seaward of the territorial sea" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of exclusive economic zone this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What criteria should govern separate modelling of geographically disconnected EEZ components associated with one state?", "How should changing coastlines, revised baselines and claims to preserved maritime limits be represented without assuming a settled legal outcome?", "Which jurisdiction-specific interpretations govern military activities, hydrographic surveys and marine scientific research in each instantiated zone?", "How should conflicting official coordinates, third-party datasets and judicial descriptions be reconciled while preserving each source's claim?", "Which existing Vercy world models already own maritime entitlement, continental-shelf rights or boundary disputes and must be linked to avoid duplicate sources of truth?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 13, "findings": 20, "questions": 32 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "place or geographic feature", "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 exclusive economic zone, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify an exclusive economic zone, assess the authority and uncertainty attached to its waters and resources, and determine the conditions governing a proposed activity.", "characteristics": { "substance": "place", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "fixed", "scale": "geographic" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "entered, crossed or travelled along" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 64 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 exclusive economic zone, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a portion of the world with an extent", "physicalCharacter": [ "On the scale of a landscape, measured in kilometres.", "Stays where it was put; moving it is a project.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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", "enter it, cross it, travel along it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by extent on the ground and by position, not by appearance. Two places that look alike are told apart by where they are." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 64 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 exclusive economic zone from another, and a exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a exclusive economic zone is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at geographic scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a exclusive economic zone, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a exclusive economic zone, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a exclusive economic zone is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a exclusive economic zone, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a exclusive economic zone, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a exclusive economic zone is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a exclusive economic zone, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a exclusive economic zone, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a exclusive economic zone is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a exclusive economic zone is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a exclusive economic zone, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a exclusive economic zone, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a exclusive economic zone is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a exclusive economic zone, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a exclusive economic zone, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a exclusive economic zone and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a exclusive economic zone is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a exclusive economic zone performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a exclusive economic zone, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a exclusive economic zone, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a exclusive economic zone.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a exclusive economic zone at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a exclusive economic zone, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a exclusive economic zone, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "extent-and-geometry", "name": "Extent, geometry and naming", "description": "Where exclusive economic zone is, how far it reaches, and what it is called.", "rationale": "A boundary is claimed by an authority rather than observed in the world, so the claimant belongs in the record with the geometry.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry", "name": "Geometry and reference system", "description": "Coordinates, extent and the frame they are given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-record", "name": "Geometry, precision and frame", "description": "What is recorded about position and shape, and to what accuracy.", "questions": [ { "id": "geometry-record-q01", "text": "What geometry describes exclusive economic zone, in which coordinate reference system, at what precision?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "geometry-record-q02", "text": "Which authority publishes that geometry, and who publishes a different one?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names", "name": "Names and endonyms", "description": "What it is called in different languages and by different parties.", "findings": [ { "id": "naming-record", "name": "Names and who uses them", "description": "Official names, local names and contested names.", "questions": [ { "id": "naming-record-q01", "text": "By what names is exclusive economic zone known, in which languages, and which are official to whom?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "naming-record-q02", "text": "Where naming is contested, what should an agent record instead of choosing?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-and-access", "name": "Containment, jurisdiction and access", "description": "What exclusive economic zone sits inside, who governs it, and who may enter.", "rationale": "Administrative containment decides which rules apply, and it changes without the place moving.", "layers": [ { "id": "containment", "name": "Administrative containment", "description": "The units it belongs to and the date each holds from.", "findings": [ { "id": "containment-record", "name": "Containing units and effective dates", "description": "Where it sits administratively and since when.", "questions": [ { "id": "containment-record-q01", "text": "Which administrative units contain exclusive economic zone, and since when does each containment hold?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "containment-record-q02", "text": "Which containment is disputed, and by which parties?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access", "name": "Access and permitted use", "description": "Who may enter or use it and under what conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and their source", "description": "Entry, use and restriction, with the rule behind each.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "Who may enter or use exclusive economic zone, under what conditions, and by whose rule?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "What seasonal or conditional closure applies, and how is it announced?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone 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 exclusive economic zone is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone, 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 exclusive economic zone is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 53 } } } }