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clandestine cell

vr.tr.clandestine-cell · thing-q2944071

Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a clandestine cell, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.ORG

Generated draft, first pass

This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.

Generator: vr.draft.v3

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Derived, awaiting review

6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions

Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one clandestine cell from another, and a clandestine cell from things that resemble it.

Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.

Names and identifiers

The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.

Preferred name, aliases and local names

Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.

  1. What identifies and describes the name of a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the name of a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the name of a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action

Stable identifiers and external keys

Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.

  1. What identifies and describes an identifier for a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classification and granularity

Where a clandestine cell sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.

Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds

The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.

  1. What identifies and describes the kind of a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the kind of a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action

Distinguishing features

What separates a clandestine cell from the things most often confused with it.

  1. What identifies and describes what distinguishes a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a clandestine cell passes through and the events that move it between them.

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.

Lifecycle stages

From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.

Stages and transitions

The stages worth naming and what moves a clandestine cell between them.

  1. What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action

Observations and current status

What is observed about a clandestine cell, how often and by whom.

Observation record

How an observation of a clandestine cell is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.

  1. What identifies and describes an observation of a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an observation of a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action
People, roles and responsibility Who stands in what relation to a clandestine cell.

Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.

Roles and parties

The roles that exist around a clandestine cell and who fills them.

Role assignments and their validity

Who holds which role over a clandestine cell, from when, and on whose authority.

  1. What identifies and describes a role over a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a role over a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a role over a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action

Ownership and accountability

Who answers for a clandestine cell and who may decide about it.

Accountability and decision rights

Where responsibility for a clandestine cell sits when something goes wrong.

  1. What identifies and describes responsibility for a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action
Legal identity and mandate What clandestine cell is in law and what it exists to do.

Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.

Legal form and registration

Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.

Registration and identifiers

What names this body unambiguously in law.

  1. What legal form does clandestine cell take, in which register, under which identifier? definition
  2. What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not? boundary

Mandate and governing instrument

The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.

Mandate and its source

What it may do, and the instrument that says so.

  1. What is the mandate of clandestine cell, and which founding or governing instrument grants it? provenance
  2. What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it? action
Governance, membership and decision rights Who decides in clandestine cell and who belongs to it.

Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.

Decision rights

Bodies, offices and what each may bind.

Who may bind the organisation

The offices that can commit it and their limits.

  1. Which bodies or offices of clandestine cell may take which decisions, and up to what limit? definition
  2. What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office? provenance

Membership and affiliation

Who counts as part of it and on what terms.

Membership and its evidence

Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.

  1. What kinds of membership or affiliation does clandestine cell have, and how does each begin and end? definition
  2. What may a member do in its name, and what may they not? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a clandestine cell came from and when it held.

A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.

Source and authority

Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.

Claim provenance and confidence

The authority behind each claim about a clandestine cell and how confident it is.

  1. What identifies and describes a claim about a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a claim about a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action

Time, versions and supersession

When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.

Validity period and supersession

How an old claim about a clandestine cell is retired without being erased.

  1. What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a clandestine cell, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a clandestine cell, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Society, people and institutions
Entry kind
organisation or institution
Plane
SOC
Domain
SOC.ORG

What it is Derived, awaiting review

A social thing registered under SOC.ORG. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.

Why it exists Derived, awaiting review

Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a clandestine cell, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.

Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review

  • Described in 13 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.

What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review

May

  • observe it, measure it, record its state

Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Owners Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Links to other meta-models Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete

Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

  • Made of: a social arrangement between people
  • 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.

Recognition optional Derived, awaiting review

  • Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body.

Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review

  • observed and measured

Hazards and failure modes required Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Standards and interfaces required Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Context of use required Derived, awaiting review

  • Described in 13 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.

Sources Missing, in the backlog

Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.

Open questions

  • 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 clandestine cell, and on what evidence are they told apart?
  • What may an agent decide or do once the name of a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse?
  • What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse?
  • What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a clandestine cell is known, and what must it refuse?

Machine files

Provenance

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