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Rights / Entitlements

vr.wm-pol-014 · wm-pol-014-rights-entitlements

Describe a qualified assertion that a party holds or may exercise a right or entitlement concerning a referenced subject.

World Models Society, people and institutions SOC.POL

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

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7 bundles · 14 layers · 14 findings · 42 questions

Identity and basis Identify what is asserted and distinguish its basis from the fact of recording it.

Qualified rights assertion context

Proposed assertion identity separates a claimed relationship from its evidence and from the subject's existence.

Qualified rights assertion

Proposed assertion identity separates a claimed relationship from its evidence and from the subject's existence.

Which master identifies this rights assertion and which evidence distinguishes it from a duplicate or rival claim? identity
What right kind is asserted, and is its recognition confirmed, contested, provisional or unknown under the named profile? classification
What effect, if any, does registration have under the cited basis rather than under a local software convention? authority

Normative and jurisdictional basis context

Link the actual authority or instrument. Declaration, recommendation, customary claim, contract and binding determination are not interchangeable.

Normative and jurisdictional basis

Link the actual authority or instrument. Declaration, recommendation, customary claim, contract and binding determination are not interchangeable.

Which provision, instrument or customary basis supports this assertion and what authority does that source actually have? provenance
Which jurisdiction, community, sector and time-specific profile govern recognition of this entitlement? spatial
Who reviewed applicability and which conflicting or missing basis prevents a definitive recognition claim? validation

Holders and subjects Keep parties, the subject and co-holding semantics explicit without owning their masters.

Holder and role bindings context

Separate the beneficiary or right holder from issuer, custodian, duty bearer and representative. A right need not have a discretionary grantor.

Holder and role bindings

Separate the beneficiary or right holder from issuer, custodian, duty bearer and representative. A right need not have a discretionary grantor.

Which person, organization or collective is asserted to hold the right, and how is that party reference resolved? relationship
Which other parties are grantor, duty bearer, registrar or custodian, and which roles are unknown or inapplicable? ownership
Which object, service, benefit or protected interest is the subject, and how are partial or multiple subjects delimited? composition

Collective and fractional holding context

Proposed co-holding qualifiers preserve indivisible and customary holdings without forcing all rights into numeric ownership shares.

Collective and fractional holding

Proposed co-holding qualifiers preserve indivisible and customary holdings without forcing all rights into numeric ownership shares.

Is the holding individual, joint, fractional, collective or another profile-defined form? classification
If shares are meaningful, what quantity, denominator and completeness rule apply without treating unknown shares as zero? measurement
Which consent or representation rule governs exercise by a co-holder and which affected holders have unresolved objections? constraint

Scope and conditions Express what the relationship concerns and what evidence of qualification is needed.

Exercise scope and limitations context

Rights-specific selectors and referenced constraints describe an assertion. Evaluation and enforcement remain external.

Exercise scope and limitations

Rights-specific selectors and referenced constraints describe an assertion. Evaluation and enforcement remain external.

Which acts, uses or benefits are within the asserted scope and which are explicitly excluded? definition
What temporal, territorial, purpose or quantity constraints limit the assertion and which values remain unknown? constraint
Which external evaluation or access contract must be consulted before a requested operation can proceed? access

Qualification and obligation evidence context

Retain program conditions and obligation evidence without equating eligibility, award, payment and receipt.

Qualification and obligation evidence

Retain program conditions and obligation evidence without equating eligibility, award, payment and receipt.

Which qualifying conditions and benefit level are prescribed by the applicable program and version? requirement
What evidence supports each qualification or duty and is its status fulfilled, unmet, disputed or unknown? evidence
Does the record describe potential eligibility, an award, an exercise or fulfilled delivery, and which external record supports that distinction? state

Delegation and supported exercise Distinguish another party's activity from ownership and preserve the holder's own rights.

Delegation and stewardship context

Proposed mandate qualifiers reference evidence of permitted representation; provenance alone is insufficient to establish legal authority.

Delegation and stewardship

Proposed mandate qualifiers reference evidence of permitted representation; provenance alone is insufficient to establish legal authority.

What instrument authorizes the delegate or steward, for which holder and for which specific activities? authority
What limits, expiry and subdelegation rules apply, and can every link in the asserted chain be evidenced? constraint
What review or withdrawal evidence changes the mandate assertion without transferring the holder's underlying right? lifecycle

Supported exercise and safeguards context

Record support and representation as distinct relationships. Never infer lack of legal capacity from disability or make a supporter the beneficial holder.

Supported exercise and safeguards

Record support and representation as distinct relationships. Never infer lack of legal capacity from disability or make a supporter the beneficial holder.

What support or representation is requested or recorded, and what evidence preserves the person's own will and preferences? authority
Which safeguards address conflict of interest, undue influence, proportionality and review of the arrangement? requirement
How can the person contest or change the arrangement and access the relevant information in an accessible form? exception

Time and changes Separate effective relationships, observed assertions and references to legally relevant changes.

Effective and recorded state context

Proposed bitemporal assertions preserve corrections and uncertainty; local revision time does not establish the effective date of a right.

Effective and recorded state

Proposed bitemporal assertions preserve corrections and uncertainty; local revision time does not establish the effective date of a right.

What effective interval and precision are supported for this assertion, including unknown or open bounds? temporal
When was the assertion observed and recorded, and what earlier version did this observation correct? provenance
What evidence supports expiry, suspension or revival, and does it affect the right, its exercise or only the local record? state

Transfer and succession references context

Proposed change links preserve the predecessor assertion and distinguish a reported transaction from recognized effect. Inalienable rights are not transferable by default.

Transfer and succession references

Proposed change links preserve the predecessor assertion and distinguish a reported transaction from recognized effect. Inalienable rights are not transferable by default.

Does the applicable right permit transfer or succession, and what rule or instrument establishes that possibility? requirement
Which predecessor and successor assertions are linked, and what scope, share or conditions are affected? relationship
What external execution, registration or determination evidence establishes the claimed change rather than merely its proposal? event

Evidence and contest Keep the origin of each claim and unresolved contradictions available for qualified review.

Evidence and recognition quality context

Evidence attribution, integrity and freshness are different from legal truth. Both supporting and contrary material can qualify an assertion.

Evidence and recognition quality

Evidence attribution, integrity and freshness are different from legal truth. Both supporting and contrary material can qualify an assertion.

Which instrument, testimony or record supports each material assertion and who supplied it? evidence
What authenticity, integrity, completeness and freshness checks were performed and what did they not establish? quality
Which contradictions or missing records prevent a verified recognition status and who is assigned to review them? validation

Disputes and remedy references context

Preserve disputed assertions and external remedy links without choosing a winner or treating every appeal as suspensive.

Disputes and remedy references

Preserve disputed assertions and external remedy links without choosing a winner or treating every appeal as suspensive.

Which aspect of the assertion is disputed, by whom and on what recorded basis? decision
Which complaint, review or court route is applicable and what external case or deadline reference is available? process
What authority-qualified outcome or interim measure affects this assertion and is its finality or suspensive effect still unresolved? exception

Disclosure and interoperability Protect evidence and preserve meaning when exchanging or retiring records.

Disclosure and record continuity context

Adopting profiles must reconcile evidence needs with purpose-limited access and retention. Rights records are not public merely because a registry stores them.

Disclosure and record continuity

Adopting profiles must reconcile evidence needs with purpose-limited access and retention. Rights records are not public merely because a registry stores them.

Which recipient and purpose justify each view of holder, support, financial or dispute information? privacy
Which retention rule or hold applies to each payload, and who decides lawful disposal when evidence and privacy interests conflict? retention
What minimal correction or disposal marker may remain without implying that erasure revoked the underlying right? lifecycle

Profile mappings and uncertainty context

Profiles must expose unsupported meanings, version drift and mapping loss. Exporting a rights assertion does not authorize its exercise.

Profile mappings and uncertainty

Profiles must expose unsupported meanings, version drift and mapping loss. Exporting a rights assertion does not authorize its exercise.

Which pinned vocabulary and schema mappings preserve holder, scope, basis and evidence in the receiving profile? interoperability
Which meanings such as collective holding or supported exercise cannot be faithfully projected and how are they marked? quality
What test evidence distinguishes structural interchange from proven conformance, legal recognition and runtime enforceability? validation

Classifiers Filled

Family: World Models
Category: Society, people and institutions
Entry kind: relationship
Navigation path: NAV.SOC.POL
Domain: SOC.POL
Industry: Cross-industry
Tags: rightsentitlementssoc.pol
Also called: S1

What it is Filled

One identifiable rights relationship assertion, with holder, right kind, subject, basis, scope and evidence. The subject can be an object, service, benefit or legally defined interest. Instances can record contested, customary, collective or unregistered claims. Recording a relationship does not create, prove, grant or extinguish the underlying right. Host models may attach references to these relationships; this is not a universal ownership registry or a runtime permission engine.

In scope

Assertion identity and normative basis; holder and subject references; rights-specific scope and conditions
Co-holding, stewardship, delegation and supported exercise with evidence-qualified authority
Effective periods, transfer and succession references, disputes, provenance, disclosure and record continuity

Out of scope

Party, organization, object and benefit-program master lifecycles; legislation and policy authoring
Access evaluation, consent processing, enforcement, audit-trail execution and payment or service delivery
Adjudicating legal capacity, title, eligibility or competing claims; executing conveyances or succession
Universal taxonomy of all rights, legal advice, jurisdiction-independent ownership or constitutional authority

Why it exists Filled

Describe a qualified assertion that a party holds or may exercise a right or entitlement concerning a referenced subject.

Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review

Unlike WM-PER-001: Holder, representative and supporter identities remain in Person; no disability-based incapacity inference.
Unlike WM-ORG-001: Organization and collective-agent master records stay external; informal groups require a profile-qualified reference rather than forced incorporation.
Unlike WM-XCT-002: Access Contract / Consent owns access and consent records. A title assertion is only possible evidence of authority, not a required or sufficient basis for every access grant.
Unlike WM-XCT-003: Projection / Disclosure Policy owns view definitions; only rights-record sensitivity and recipient requirements are carried here.
Unlike WM-XCT-038: Policy Evaluation owns runtime evaluation; local completeness checks cannot return an authoritative access or eligibility decision.
Unlike WM-XCT-004: Access Audit owns audit evidence and event execution; this model stores correlation references only.
Unlike WM-POL-009: Court / Arbitration Case owns dispute proceedings. A case reference or appeal filing is not a final title determination.
Unlike WM-KNW-012: Policy / Rule owns versioned normative rule definitions; this relationship binds applicable rules without rewriting them.
Unlike WM-POL-013: Registry Mandate owns registrar competence; administrative custody cannot bootstrap legal power from the existence of this record.
Unlike WM-REC-001: Document / Record owns instruments and evidence masters; local artifacts are identified views or references.
Unlike WM-XCT-035: Retention / Disposition provides policy and process bindings for lawful record disposal; deleting local data cannot extinguish an underlying right.

Note: Derived from boundary notes against neighbouring models.

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

Must not

Erase or redact permitted personal payloads and retain only a lawfully justified minimal tombstone; record deletion cannot revoke rights or erase external instruments
Deny local record access unless a purpose-appropriate external policy decision permits it; this software rule does not deny an underlying legal right.

Only with a human decision

Unknown, disputed or expired authority blocks local claims of verified authority, not recognition that a person may still have a right

May

Record a qualified assertion: Proposed local operation, not implemented. Prepare a provenance-linked rights relationship without claiming that recording creates the right.
Check assertion completeness: Proposed local operation, not implemented. Check structure and reference availability, not legal truth or authorization.
Link representation evidence: Proposed local operation, not implemented. Record distinct support, stewardship or delegation references.
Record an evidenced change: Proposed local operation, not implemented. Link an external transfer, correction or succession determination to a successor assertion.
Register a contest reference: Proposed local operation, not implemented. Attach disputed scope and a remedy route while leaving the substantive claim unresolved.
Prepare a scoped rights view: Proposed local operation, not implemented. Produce an evidence-qualified projection with mapping and redaction warnings.

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

Moral aspects Derived, awaiting review

Non-discrimination, supported exercise, collective claims and unregistered claims require explicit profile handling
Privacy and records custodian
Adopting Dimension authority, privacy and retention policies
Access evaluation, consent processing, enforcement, audit-trail execution and payment or service delivery
Access Contract / Consent owns access and consent records.

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

Owners Filled

Steward

An accountable record steward and a separately evidenced authority profile; neither is presumed to own the subject's rights

Roles

Record steward: Maintain local identity, quality and evidence links without assuming substantive ownership
Authority reviewer: Review basis and jurisdiction qualification; refer legal determinations to competent external authority
Holder or authorized representative: Supply or contest scoped assertions through a profile-approved process
Privacy and records custodian: Approve purpose-limited views, retention and disposition bindings
Independent reviewer: Review conflicts and assurance limits without modifying original evidence

Links to other meta-models Filled

references

WM-PER-001 - Holder, representative and supporter identities remain in Person; no disability-based incapacity inference.
WM-ORG-001 - Organization and collective-agent master records stay external; informal groups require a profile-qualified reference rather than forced incorporation.
WM-XCT-002 - Access Contract / Consent owns access and consent records. A title assertion is only possible evidence of authority, not a required or sufficient basis for every access grant.
WM-XCT-003 - Projection / Disclosure Policy owns view definitions; only rights-record sensitivity and recipient requirements are carried here.
WM-XCT-038 - Policy Evaluation owns runtime evaluation; local completeness checks cannot return an authoritative access or eligibility decision.
WM-XCT-004 - Access Audit owns audit evidence and event execution; this model stores correlation references only.
WM-POL-009 - Court / Arbitration Case owns dispute proceedings. A case reference or appeal filing is not a final title determination.
WM-KNW-012 - Policy / Rule owns versioned normative rule definitions; this relationship binds applicable rules without rewriting them.
WM-POL-013 - Registry Mandate owns registrar competence; administrative custody cannot bootstrap legal power from the existence of this record.
WM-REC-001 - Document / Record owns instruments and evidence masters; local artifacts are identified views or references.
WM-XCT-035 - Retention / Disposition provides policy and process bindings for lawful record disposal; deleting local data cannot extinguish an underlying right.

aligned

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-odrl-model-20180215/ - Conceptual mapping to ODRL parties, targets and rule references only; implementation, profiles and legal-effect mappings remain untested.
https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-o-20130430/ - Conceptual provenance and qualified delegation mapping only; provenance delegation does not prove a legally valid mandate.

neighbor

WM-PER-001 - Holder, representative and supporter identities remain in Person; no disability-based incapacity inference.
WM-ORG-001 - Organization and collective-agent master records stay external; informal groups require a profile-qualified reference rather than forced incorporation.
WM-XCT-002 - Access Contract / Consent owns access and consent records. A title assertion is only possible evidence of authority, not a required or sufficient basis for every access grant.
WM-XCT-003 - Projection / Disclosure Policy owns view definitions; only rights-record sensitivity and recipient requirements are carried here.
WM-XCT-038 - Policy Evaluation owns runtime evaluation; local completeness checks cannot return an authoritative access or eligibility decision.
WM-XCT-004 - Access Audit owns audit evidence and event execution; this model stores correlation references only.
WM-POL-009 - Court / Arbitration Case owns dispute proceedings. A case reference or appeal filing is not a final title determination.
WM-KNW-012 - Policy / Rule owns versioned normative rule definitions; this relationship binds applicable rules without rewriting them.
WM-POL-013 - Registry Mandate owns registrar competence; administrative custody cannot bootstrap legal power from the existence of this record.
WM-REC-001 - Document / Record owns instruments and evidence masters; local artifacts are identified views or references.
WM-XCT-035 - Retention / Disposition provides policy and process bindings for lawful record disposal; deleting local data cannot extinguish an underlying right.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete

Sources Filled

ODRL Information Model 2.2 - World Wide Web Consortium
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 12 - United Nations
General comment No. 1 (Article 12: Equal recognition before the law) - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Guide to Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) Definition and Considerations - National Institute of Standards and Technology
PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) - European Parliament and Council of the European Union
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - United Nations
Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202) - International Labour Organization

Open questions

Run the prepared HTTP checker outside the sandbox, inspect full primary texts and confirm current versions, licenses and claim support without equating HTTP success with legal verification.
Develop qualified country and sector profiles, including unregistered collective interests, inalienable rights, supported exercise and non-property entitlements.
Build nested schemas and meaningful fixtures for rival claims, unknown shares, missing delegation evidence, retroactive correction, disputed succession, lossy projections and lawful payload disposal.
Restore independent external review before any canonical or publishable-draft promotion.
Nested machine-executable field schemas, cardinality refinements, status vocabularies and cross-reference constraints
Detailed country-specific property, family, succession, benefit and customary-law profiles
Treaty ratification, reservations, domestic effect, current consolidations and licensing review
Complete taxonomy of rights including non-property rights; domain-specific remedies and calculation
External provider review and coordinator-run direct source HTTP checks
Executable ODRL/PROV mappings, retention process bindings and adversarial instance fixtures

Machine files

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

Provenance

world-models research · reviewable-draft

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