Interstate Relations & Treaties

Findings

Catalogue-native findings must describe the information grouped by each layer. This legacy version does not declare them separately.

Questions & artifacts

Questions, artifact requirements and serial naming rules are required by Vercy vNext; they remain unassigned in this reference version.

Dimension & namespace

• REFERENCE `world.organization` (O1): parties, hosts and senders resolve to polities
• REFERENCE `world.organization` (O1): international organizations joined through membership
• REFERENCE `world.lawmaking` (A10): ratification is typically completed by enactment
• REFERENCE `world.publicOffice` (A11): signature and accreditation act under the full powers of an office
• ALIGN `world.interstateRelations` (A15) of each counterpart polity's catalogue: the same treaty is a mirrored sovereign record on both sides, reconciled without merging
• MIX-IN `world.auditTrail` (S4): lifecycle acts and reconciliations are append-only
• imports: vclt (ALIGN): treaty-law lifecycle concepts, signature, ratification, reservation, denunciation
• imports: mufp (REFERENCE): the federation protocol used to reconcile mirrored interstate records between sovereign catalogues

Canon, patches & standards

• REFERENCE `world.organization` (O1): parties, hosts and senders resolve to polities
• REFERENCE `world.organization` (O1): international organizations joined through membership
• REFERENCE `world.lawmaking` (A10): ratification is typically completed by enactment
• REFERENCE `world.publicOffice` (A11): signature and accreditation act under the full powers of an office
• ALIGN `world.interstateRelations` (A15) of each counterpart polity's catalogue: the same treaty is a mirrored sovereign record on both sides, reconciled without merging
• MIX-IN `world.auditTrail` (S4): lifecycle acts and reconciliations are append-only
• imports: vclt (ALIGN): treaty-law lifecycle concepts, signature, ratification, reservation, denunciation
• imports: mufp (REFERENCE): the federation protocol used to reconcile mirrored interstate records between sovereign catalogues

Artifact formats & serial data

Format-independent core. Concrete artifact formats and naming prefixes are not declared in this legacy version.

Policies & accepted processes

• `publicTreatyRegistry`: open access to treaty texts, party status and in-force dates
• `federationReconciliation`: the standing agreement by which counterpart catalogues reconcile mirrored records of the same treaty or membership
• `complianceReporting`: scoped exchange of performance reports between parties or with an organization

Read / add / edit / delete

CRUD procedures and interface bindings are not declared in this legacy version.

Ownership, roles & access

The foreign-affairs authority stewards the polity's own copy of every interstate record; no shared owner exists across polities. Treaty texts and party status are public; negotiation and compliance layers are opened only by owner grant via S1 and S2.

Objects

• `treaty`: an agreement governed by international law; key attributes: title, subjectMatter, adoptedOn, depositaryRef, status
• `party`: one polity's standing under a treaty; key attributes: polityRef, treatyRef, becameBoundOn, status
• `ratification`: the domestic act of consent to be bound; key attributes: instrument, enactmentRef, depositedOn
• `reservation`: a qualification a party attaches to obligations; key attributes: text, targetProvisions, objections
• `obligation`: a distinct commitment arising from a treaty; key attributes: provisionRef, bearer, beneficiary, reportingRule
• `membership`: a polity's membership in an international organization or regime; key attributes: organizationRef, class, since, status
• `mission`: an accredited standing representation to another polity or organization; key attributes: sendingPolityRef, hostRef, headOfMissionRef, status

Relationships

• `party` -> boundBy -> `treaty` (N:M): a treaty binds several polities; a polity is party to many treaties
• `party` -> isPolity -> `polityRef` (1:1): each party record resolves to a polity in A1
• `ratification` -> binds -> `party` (N:1): consent instruments accumulate on one party record
• `obligation` -> arisesFrom -> `treaty` (N:1): commitments trace to specific provisions
• `reservation` -> qualifies -> `obligation` (N:1): a reservation narrows or excludes particular commitments
• `membership` -> joins -> `organizationRef` (N:1): membership resolves to an organization in O1
• `mission` -> accreditedTo -> `polityRef` (N:1): a mission is hosted by one polity or organization

Events

• `treatySigned`: a negotiated text was signed by the polity's representative
• `treatyRatified`: domestic consent to be bound was completed and deposited
• `reservationEntered`: a qualification was attached on becoming bound
• `treatyEnteredIntoForce`: the treaty took effect for this party
• `treatyAmended`: the treaty text or annexes were amended in force
• `treatyDenounced`: a party withdrew and the treaty ceased to bind it
• `membershipGranted`: the polity acceded to an organization or regime
• `missionAccredited`: a standing mission was accredited by the host

Projections

• `treatyBookInForce`: everything currently binding this polity; omits negotiation history and lapsed instruments
• `obligationMatrix`: who owes what to whom under which provision; omits diplomatic correspondence
• `membershipMap`: current memberships and missions; omits compliance detail