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issuer governance" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The subject consists of tangible banknotes or coins, rather than a balance accessible through an account or device.", "Its claimed monetary identity can be linked to a currency, issuing authority and denomination; a generic token or voucher requires a different model.", "Its face value is established from denominations and quantities, rather than principally from material weight or collectible rarity.", "The physical pieces must change custody when this particular cash holding is delivered; recording a transfer instruction alone does not deliver it.", "A suspected counterfeit can be recorded as purported cash while its monetary validity remains unresolved." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Cash form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "banknote | coin | mixed lot | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines appropriate counting, inspection, storage and handling methods." }, { "name": "Currency and issuer", "kind": "relation", 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"name": "Authenticity assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | inconclusive | assessed genuine | suspected counterfeit | determined counterfeit; accompanied by evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a visual impression or successful count from being treated as proof of authenticity." }, { "name": "Physical condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed wear, tears, missing portions, alteration, corrosion, soiling or contamination", "why_it_matters": "Affects safe handling, machine processing, acceptance and possible redemption." }, { "name": "Custody and disposition authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Current custodian, location, claimed owner, authorised actor and applicable restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes physical possession from permission to spend or transfer." }, { "name": "Contextual usability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "accepted | rejected | conditional | unknown for a named recipient, channel, place, time and purpose", "why_it_matters": "Supports a concrete action without assuming universal acceptance." } ], "affordances": [ "Count and sort pieces by currency, denomination, issue and condition.", "Inspect authenticity indicators and record the limits of the assessment.", "Assemble a payment amount and determine whether change is required.", "Secure, separate or transfer a cash lot while recording custody and authority.", "Present eligible cash for payment, deposit, exchange or redemption.", "Separate suspect, damaged or contaminated pieces pending appropriate assessment." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-cash", "title": "Cash", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash", "what_it_supports": "Core sense of cash as physical currency (banknotes and coins) as distinct from bank money; neighbouring payment instruments.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iso-4217", "title": "ISO 4217 - Currency codes", "url": "https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html", "what_it_supports": "The three-letter (and numeric) codes that name the currency unit of which a cash piece is a token, not the physical object itself.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "imf-mfsmcg", "title": "Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Statistical treatment of currency in circulation as a liability of the issuer, distinct from transferable deposits and cash equivalents." }, { "id": "fatf-rec-32", "title": "The FATF Recommendations (Recommendation 32 - Cash Couriers)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Cross-border cash declaration and control as the main international AML/CFT standard applying to physical cash movements." }, { "id": "ecb-euro-cash", "title": "Euro banknotes and coins (European Central Bank)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Issuance, denominations, legal-tender status, fitness sorting, and withdrawal of high-denomination notes in a major currency area." }, { "id": "bis-cpmi-red-book", "title": "Statistics on payment, clearing and settlement systems (CPMI Red Book)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Comparative use of cash versus non-cash payment instruments and stocks of currency in circulation." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "monetary-identity", "name": "Monetary identity", "description": "Establishes what currency and issue the physical pieces purport to represent.", "rationale": "Appearance alone does not establish denomination, issuer or whether a piece belongs to the intended cash category.", "layers": [ { "id": "currency-and-denomination", "name": "Currency and denomination", "description": "Identifies the monetary markings needed to interpret a piece's nominal value.", "findings": [ { "id": "claimed-monetary-identity", "name": "Claimed monetary identity", "description": "Record the observed form, currency, issuer and denomination, distinguishing readable markings from inferred identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What currency, issuing authority and denomination does this note or coin claim to represent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "claimed-monetary-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which markings support that identification, and which are unreadable or ambiguous?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claimed-monetary-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "issue-and-category-boundaries", "name": "Issue and category boundaries", "description": "Distinguishes currency issues from replicas, tokens and objects whose monetary role is uncertain.", "findings": [ { "id": "issue-classification", "name": "Issue classification", "description": "Record the apparent series or design and any evidence that the object is a replica, specimen, token or noncirculating issue.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which issue or series matches the observed design and identifiers?", "kind": "definition", "id": "issue-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Does this piece qualify for this cash model, or require a linked token, replica or collectible model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "issue-classification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cash-composition-and-count", "name": "Cash composition and count", "description": "Establishes the physical holding and its denomination-based amounts.", "rationale": "Cash decisions require both the total amount and the pieces available to make that amount.", "layers": [ { "id": "lot-boundary-and-count", "name": "Lot boundary and count", "description": "Defines which pieces belong to the holding and how their quantities were established.", "findings": [ { "id": "count-evidence", "name": "Count evidence", "description": "Record counts by denomination with counting method, time and any unresolved discrepancy; distinguish observed contents from package labels.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which pieces or packages are included, and how many pieces of each denomination were actually counted?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "count-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Was the count manual, machine-produced or taken from a label, and when was it last verified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "count-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "amount-and-payment-composition", "name": "Amount and payment composition", "description": "Calculates nominal totals and tests whether available denominations can satisfy a specified amount.", "findings": [ { "id": "denomination-arithmetic", "name": "Denomination arithmetic", "description": "Record totals separately by currency and identify pieces excluded from a proposed use because their identity or usability is unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "What face-value total follows from the recorded denomination counts in each currency?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "denomination-arithmetic-q01" }, { "text": "Can the usable pieces make the requested payment exactly, or what change would be needed?", "kind": "action", "id": "denomination-arithmetic-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authenticity-and-condition", "name": "Authenticity and condition", "description": "Assesses whether pieces are credible currency and physically suitable for the 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Act currency transaction reports via FinCEN at USD 10,000; member-state cash-payment limits under EU AML frameworks)", "Central-bank rules on unfit, mutilated, and counterfeit notes (redemption, seizure, and destruction procedures)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of cash 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": [ "Face-to-face retail payment and change-giving at tills", "Person-to-person settlement without a bank or card network, including tips and informal-economy payments", "ATM withdrawal and over-the-counter branch cash services", "Merchant till holdings, cash offices, and cash-in-transit movement between banks, retailers, and central-bank cash centres", "Central-bank issuance, authentication, fitness sorting, recirculation, and destruction of unfit notes", "Store of value, including high-denomination notes and foreign-currency cash in dollarized or high-inflation settings", "Declared (or undeclared) carriage across borders above customs/AML thresholds" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of cash 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": "Face value (denomination)", "typical_range": "smallest circulating coin up to the largest circulating note of that currency (e.g. USD notes 1-100; EUR notes 5-200 after curtailment of 500)", "unit": "currency units of the ISO 4217 code" }, { "quantity": "Note length × width", "typical_range": "about 120-180 × 60-85", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Coin mass", "typical_range": "about 1.5-28 for ordinary circulating coins", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Piece count in a standard note bundle", "typical_range": "typically 100 notes (bricks/packs vary by cash centre)", "unit": "pieces" }, { "quantity": "Currency in circulation relative to GDP", "typical_range": "roughly 2-15 depending on economy and cash intensity", "unit": "% of GDP" }, { "quantity": "Fitness class", "typical_range": "fit for recirculation vs unfit for destruction (central-bank sorter grades)", "unit": "categorical" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of cash 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": [ "Counterfeiting and circulation of forged notes or coins", "Theft, robbery, and loss - bearer character means possession is ordinarily title", "Wear, soil, tears, and mutilation rendering notes unfit; dye-pack or stolen-cash staining", "Demonetisation or series invalidation leaving holders with non-redeemable paper if exchange windows close", "Inflation or sudden loss of purchasing power while the physical tokens remain", "Use in money laundering, tax evasion, and illicit trade; bulk cash smuggling", "Cash-in-transit and ATM attacks; till shortfalls and internal theft", "Coin melt when metal content exceeds face value; note shortages from distribution failure" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cash 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": [ "In accounting (IFRS/US GAAP) \"cash\" includes demand deposits; as a physical object it does not - the registry sense is notes and coins only", "United States colloquial \"cash\" often means notes; coins are \"change.\" United Kingdom \"cash\" is notes and coins; Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not legal tender throughout the UK but are widely accepted", "Euro area shares euro cash; several member states cap cash payments. Sweden and some other northern European economies are near-cashless in retail, while cash remains dominant for small payments in parts of southern Europe, Japan, and many emerging markets", "India's 2016 withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes is a large recent demonetisation; polymer notes are standard in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, while United States Federal Reserve notes remain cotton-paper", "Dollarized and highly dollarized economies (e.g. Ecuador, Zimbabwe at various times, parts of Latin America) treat USD cash as everyday circulating money" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of cash 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": "Transferable bank deposits (scriptural money)", "difference": "A deposit is an account claim on a bank transferred by payment order; cash is a physical bearer token that settles by delivery." }, { "name": "Cash equivalents (accounting)", "difference": "Short-term highly liquid instruments (e.g. T-bills, money-market funds) classified with cash on a balance sheet; they are not notes or coins." }, { "name": "Electronic money, cards, and CBDC", "difference": "Recorded as an electronic claim or balance; no physical note or coin changes hands." }, { "name": "Cheques, money orders, and similar instruments", "difference": "Orders to pay, not currency; they require collection and can bounce." }, { "name": "Vouchers, tokens, gift cards, casino chips, and private scrip", "difference": "Limited-acceptance media, generally not legal tender for all debts in the jurisdiction." }, { "name": "Investment bullion (bars and non-tender ingots)", "difference": "Traded for metal content and purity; legal-tender bullion coins may be cash in law even when they do not circulate at face value." }, { "name": "Cryptocurrency", "difference": "Not issued as physical legal tender by a monetary authority; transfer is by ledger update, not delivery of a note or coin." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of cash this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend cash to include withdrawn currency, noncirculating legal-tender issues and commodity money, or only physical currency intended for ordinary circulation?", "Which existing Vercy models own currency systems, collectible coins and payment instruments, and where should shared concepts be linked?", "What evidence threshold and assessor authority should distinguish assessed genuine from inconclusive or suspected counterfeit?", "Which authoritative sources and update intervals are required for issue status, acceptance constraints and damaged-cash redemption in each supported jurisdiction?", "When should the model identify individual pieces rather than denomination lots, and what provenance is necessary when lots are split, combined or recounted?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a cash, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise physical cash, assess its value and usability, and determine whether it may be counted, held, transferred, spent, deposited or presented for exchange.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 61 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 cash, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. 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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 cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash 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 cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash 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.", "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 cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "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 cash is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash 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 cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash 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 cash between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cash 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 cash, 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 cash, 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 cash is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What cash is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does cash perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise cash, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How cash is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does cash have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does cash need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about cash is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about cash hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern cash, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cash 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 cash and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cash, 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 cash, 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 cash 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 cash is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cash, 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 cash, 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 cash is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }