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Treaty

vr.wm-pol-005 · wm-pol-005-treaty

Represent one treaty and its evidence-qualified texts, participation, applicability and lifecycle assertions across custodial records.

World Models Society, people and institutions SOC.POL.TRY

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Classifiers What it is Why it exists Distinguishing features What robots and AI may and may not do Moral aspects Owners Links to other meta-models Identity and identifiers Direct properties Recognition Capabilities and actions Hazards and failure modes Standards and interfaces Context of use Sources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

6 bundles · 12 layers · 12 findings · 36 questions

Treaty identity and texts Recognize the agreement and distinguish its textual expressions.

Identity and classification

Keep persistent treaty identity separate from title, document identity and registry entries. Classification remains an evidenced assessment.

Treaty identity and instrument boundary

Keep persistent treaty identity separate from title, document identity and registry entries. Classification remains an evidenced assessment.

Which authority-qualified identifier denotes this treaty and how are aliases reconciled? identity
What evidence supports classifying the agreement as a treaty within the chosen legal profile? classification
Which related instruments constitute this agreement or instead identify separate treaties? composition

Texts and authentication

Preserve language, authentication and correction status per text; a translation or local consolidation is not silently promoted to authentic text.

Authentic text and version evidence

Preserve language, authentication and correction status per text; a translation or local consolidation is not silently promoted to authentic text.

Which language versions and annexes have evidenced authentic status? evidence
Which adoption and authentication acts establish the recorded text version? event
How are translations, corrected copies and local consolidations distinguished from authoritative texts? quality

Participants and consent Separate party masters, representation evidence and international acts.

Participants and authority

Represent negotiating, signatory, contracting and party assertions separately. Each role has provenance; representation authority is specific to the act.

Treaty roles and representation evidence

Represent negotiating, signatory, contracting and party assertions separately. Each role has provenance; representation authority is specific to the act.

Which participant holds each treaty role during the stated period? relationship
What authority supports the representative performing this particular treaty act? authority
Which capacity or identity uncertainties prevent reliance on a participant assertion? exception

Consent and related domestic evidence

Record the consent mechanism and evidence separately from domestic approval, receipt and claimed legal effect. Do not assume that every signature requires later ratification.

International consent act evidence

Record the consent mechanism and evidence separately from domestic approval, receipt and claimed legal effect. Do not assume that every signature requires later ratification.

By which evidenced mechanism was consent to be bound expressed for this participant? process
What exchange, deposit or notification evidence establishes the relevant international act? provenance
Which domestic approval references are relevant without being treated as international consent? constraint

Force and application Qualify force by participant, territory, provision and time.

Entry into force and provisional application

Keep overall entry into force, participant-specific force and provisional application as separate assertions with rule and evidence references.

Scope-specific force assertions

Keep overall entry into force, participant-specific force and provisional application as separate assertions with rule and evidence references.

What rule and evidence support the treaty-level entry-into-force assertion? state
When does the treaty take effect for this participant under the applicable clause? temporal
What basis and limits govern any provisional application before definitive force? requirement

Territory and temporal application

Store territory, provisions and temporal scope with evidence and uncertainty. Do not infer treaty scope from a current geographic map or organizational membership.

Qualified application scope

Store territory, provisions and temporal scope with evidence and uncertainty. Do not infer treaty scope from a current geographic map or organizational membership.

Which territorial application assertion is supported for the participant and period? spatial
Which provisions or optional regimes are selected and what evidence qualifies their application? constraint
What unresolved succession or temporal-application issue requires a specialist profile? exception

Qualifications and obligations Connect statements and interpreted commitments with assessed evidence.

Reservations and declarations

Classify statement purpose with evidence. Track objections, acceptance and withdrawals without treating every declaration as a valid reservation or resolving bilateral effects automatically.

Statements and reactions

Classify statement purpose with evidence. Track objections, acceptance and withdrawals without treating every declaration as a valid reservation or resolving bilateral effects automatically.

What statement was made and why is it classified as a reservation or declaration? definition
Which reactions or withdrawals relate to that statement and which participants are affected? relationship
What admissibility or effect dispute remains unresolved by the recorded communications? validation

Obligations and review references

Maintain attributed obligation interpretations and links to performance or review records. A submitted report is not proof of compliance, and no generic reporting duty is imposed.

Provision-linked obligations and assessments

Maintain attributed obligation interpretations and links to performance or review records. A submitted report is not proof of compliance, and no generic reporting duty is imposed.

Which provision is the basis for this attributed obligation interpretation? requirement
What evidence or external review addresses performance during the relevant period? evidence
Which interpretation or compliance disagreements require external resolution? decision

Change and cessation Preserve amendment and cessation history without automatic legal conclusions.

Amendments and related agreements

Link amendments and protocols with their own participation and effect evidence. A latest text does not imply identical obligations for all participants.

Amendment applicability and version links

Link amendments and protocols with their own participation and effect evidence. A latest text does not imply identical obligations for all participants.

Which amendment or protocol changes the referenced provisions? composition
Which participants and periods are covered by the asserted change? temporal
How does a consolidated view preserve differing versions and modification limits? interoperability

Suspension withdrawal and validity disputes

Separate a claim, notice and established effect. Withdrawal by one participant is not automatically termination for all; historical and surviving effects need separate assessment.

Qualified cessation assertions

Separate a claim, notice and established effect. Withdrawal by one participant is not automatically termination for all; historical and surviving effects need separate assessment.

What evidence and legal basis support a claimed suspension, withdrawal, termination or invalidity? lifecycle
Which receipt, effect or revocation dates and affected parties are evidenced? temporal
Which objections, surviving obligations or historical effects remain for competent review? exception

Official records and stewardship Maintain custody, registry references and controlled local projections.

Depositary and registration records

Distinguish depositary custody, registration and publication. Registry silence or presence does not decide validity; parallel custodial assertions retain their origin.

Custody registration and publication evidence

Distinguish depositary custody, registration and publication. Registry silence or presence does not decide validity; parallel custodial assertions retain their origin.

Who performs the evidenced depositary or custodial function for this treaty? ownership
Which registration and publication records exist and what do they identify? provenance
How are conflicting records reconciled without replacing their authoritative source assertions? quality

Record stewardship and projections

Apply local custodian policy to restricted material, revisions and disposal. Projection mapping must preserve uncertainty and authority or explicitly refuse the export.

Authorized records and interoperable views

Apply local custodian policy to restricted material, revisions and disposal. Projection mapping must preserve uncertainty and authority or explicitly refuse the export.

What recipient and purpose authorize access to each treaty record or restricted attachment? access
Which retention rule or legal hold controls each local payload and its authorized disposal? retention
What mapping and evidence demonstrate that a local projection preserves required qualifiers? interoperability

Classifiers Filled

Family: World Models
Category: Society, people and institutions
Entry kind: entity
Navigation path: NAV.SOC.POL.TRY
Domain: SOC.POL.TRY
Industry: Cross-industry
Tags: treatysoc.pol.try
Also called: A15

What it is Filled

A persistent treaty entity, primarily a written international agreement between States governed by international law. One agreement may use multiple related instruments. This model stores treaty-specific evidence and assessed assertions, not a legal decision engine or the whole foreign-affairs domain. Other subjects of international law require an explicit specialist profile.

In scope

Treaty identity, subject classification, related instruments, authentic texts and provenance
Participant roles, authority evidence, consent acts and treaty-specific force assertions
Reservations, declarations, obligations, changes, disputes and official registration references
Controlled local record stewardship and conservative reconciliation of parallel custodial assertions

Out of scope

General organization membership, diplomatic missions, accreditation and recognition of States
Domestic lawmaking and constitutional approval processes; only evidence references are stored
Execution of signature, deposit, reservation, withdrawal, legal notification, enforcement or dispute adjudication
Operational details of weapons, detention or controlled items; any relevant treaty topic stays at policy level
Automatic legal applicability, compliance scoring, succession rules or universal treaty-law conformance

Why it exists Filled

Represent one treaty and its evidence-qualified texts, participation, applicability and lifecycle assertions across custodial records.

Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review

Unlike Legacy A15 interstate relations and treaties: Narrow to one treaty. Membership and mission records remain separate. Domestic approval is not the international consent act. No blanket requirement for mirrored sovereign copies or shared ownership is inferred.
Unlike Party and organization master records: Reference participant identity and capacity evidence. Treaty-specific role and effect assertions do not own the polity, organization, office or membership lifecycle.
Unlike Text, protocol and implementing instrument: A document is an expression or evidence of the treaty, not necessarily a separate treaty. A protocol can be a separately identified treaty linked to its parent; domestic instruments remain external masters.
Unlike Depositary, registry and legal reviewer: Custody, registration, party assertions and authoritative determinations have different authority. A local record or digest cannot establish binding effect, legality or universal agreement.

Note: Derived from boundary notes against neighbouring models.

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

Must not

Append supported corrections and assessments against the expected revision; never silently rewrite an authentic text or external source.
Deny restricted record access absent verified recipient, purpose and scope.

May

Resolve treaty reference: Proposed operation, not implemented. Resolve exact namespace and identifier; title similarity yields a candidate match, never an automatic merge.
Link a text expression: Proposed operation, not implemented. Record a text reference and evidenced language, authenticity and version qualifiers.
Record consent evidence: Proposed operation, not implemented. Append evidence of an existing consent act and its unresolved effects.
Record an applicability assessment: Proposed operation, not implemented. Store a qualified reviewer assertion about force, scope or change with its rule and source.
Compare custodial assertions: Proposed operation, not implemented. Report disagreements between dated official observations and local assertions.
Prepare an authorized treaty view: Proposed operation, not implemented. Generate a local view with source revisions, redactions and mapping losses.

Note: Derived from functions, policies, CRUD and access rules; prohibitions were not authored for agents as such.

Moral aspects Derived, awaiting review

Hash equality does not prove authenticity, consent, legal validity or truth.
Public treaty metadata does not authorize release of negotiation records, signatures, personal data or restricted attachments.
Consent, force, amendment and cessation remain distinct evidenced assertions.
Signature without later ratification can express consent when supported; signature subject to ratification cannot silently become force.
Participant roles, authority evidence, consent acts and treaty-specific force assertions
Domestic approval is not the international consent act.

Note: Sentences mentioning harm, privacy, consent or similar, collected from the specification.

Owners Filled

Steward

Accountable treaty-record custodian and evidenced role scope, separate from participant and depositary authority

Roles

Treaty record custodian: Maintain identity, records policy and source links within the evidenced mandate
Authorized records officer: Append supported acts and corrections without performing legal acts
Qualified legal reviewer: Assess scope, authority and disputed legal assertions under the applicable profile
Access and retention officer: Approve scoped disclosure, holds and lawful disposition
Independent reviewer: Challenge coverage, sources and conformance before assurance promotion

Links to other meta-models Filled

references

Participant and organization master - Candidate external identity and capacity binding; pin an adopting profile before use. No membership or organization lifecycle is local.
Domestic approval and implementing law master - Optional evidence reference, not a mandatory enactment dependency or substitute for international consent.
Related treaty or protocol - Self-model relationship to a separately identified agreement where evidenced; avoid mandatory containment or merging by title.
Dispute and compliance review record - Optional external proceeding or review master; no enforcement, adjudication or generic compliance engine is implemented here.

aligned

PROV-O 2013-04-30 - Conceptual attribution, derivation and revision mapping; no executable conformance or legal authority is claimed.
RFC 3339 - Recording instants only; retain legal dates and precision separately without manufacturing midnight timestamps.

neighbor

Legacy A15 interstate relations and treaties - Narrow to one treaty. Membership and mission records remain separate. Domestic approval is not the international consent act. No blanket requirement for mirrored sovereign copies or shared ownership is inferred.
Party and organization master records - Reference participant identity and capacity evidence. Treaty-specific role and effect assertions do not own the polity, organization, office or membership lifecycle.
Text, protocol and implementing instrument - A document is an expression or evidence of the treaty, not necessarily a separate treaty. A protocol can be a separately identified treaty linked to its parent; domestic instruments remain external masters.
Depositary, registry and legal reviewer - Custody, registration, party assertions and authoritative determinations have different authority. A local record or digest cannot establish binding effect, legality or universal agreement.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete

Sources Filled

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties - United Nations
Treaty Handbook - United Nations
Treaty Office glossary - Council of Europe
PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
Vienna Convention registration record 18232 - United Nations
Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps - Internet Engineering Task Force
Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties - United Nations

Open questions

Verify current source versions, complete cited passages, redirect behavior, reproduction permissions and treaty-specific applicability outside the sandbox.
Develop nested schemas and fixtures for bilateral exchange, definitive signature, provisional application, contested reservations, different amendment participation, revoked withdrawal and conflicting custodial records.
Pin adopting participant, instrument, dispute, records and audit bindings without transferring their lifecycle ownership into Treaty.
Restore independent external review before any canonical or publishable-draft promotion.
Independent external review is absent; a separate local Codex no-tools self-audit is not a second-provider pass.
Direct HTTP verification is unmeasured and unattempted under the owner-reported sandbox block; browser retrieval does not close current-version, applicability or licensing checks.
Non-written agreements, international-organization profiles, State succession, customary law, domestic direct effect and sector-specific treaty regimes require further specialist research.
No executable legal rules, nested instance schemas, conformance fixtures, production mappings or pinned neighbor model bindings are supplied.
Detailed admissibility and effects of reservations, invalidity grounds, dispute jurisdiction and surviving obligations require qualified case-specific review.

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification AGENTS.md Source Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

world-models research · reviewable-draft

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