A brand family is declared once and inherited: the mechanism is the protocol's, the family's values are the principal's, and every departure is declared
ADR-125 made one identity declared once and generated. It said nothing about identities that share a look. Seven projects of the constellation (custody, iter, isolation, signatio, specdossier, openbyna
Expensive verification is declared once, as SOW contracts paid at 'Publish: iter publish refuses on red, and custody's watch re-pays them on the published trunk and reports
bl-075 (2026-08-13) measured that the spine has no plane for expensive verification: `adr validate`
A project's root is supplied by the machine's registry, never written in its project.ncl — no versioned file of a project carries where that project lives
Every project registered with ontoref carries `.ontoref/project.ncl`, versioned in its own repository,
A SOW and every act that moves it are ontoref's: a dossier service reads its formats as published, through the channel a project grants, and ontoref builds no review flow of its own
This record's first text (2026-09-27) made SpecDossier the provider of the SOW protocol — the SOW's schema, the ratification policy, the review flow — and ontoref its caller, in the shape adr-122 g
The terms are a SOW and the execution is a run, in both languages
adr-063 split an Encargo into two layers: the terms a human owns, and the disposable execution
Who is who is the authority's: a project pins one public key, reads attestations offline, and names who commits in every new SOW
ADR-066 made governed delivery enforcing: a SOW is done only behind a person's out-of-band
Territory carries weight, a context face is a probed capability, and a membrane's permeability is derived from the territory a change lands in — so a premise cannot move without a ratified cast
SPLIT FROM ADR-119 on 2026-09-21. ADR-119 was written as four additions; its first
A domain PROVIDES modes to the projects that bond it — the third rung, so a component's inspection method is inherited and overridden per workspace instead of re-invented in each one
MEASURED 2026-09-05, registering a client's infrastructure in a consumer spine
A blocker declares what would show it is gone — or declares that nothing could, and names what settles it instead
MEASURED 2026-09-06, in one consumer project, in a single day: FIVE governance
The versioned artefact is the operation dump, not the database that indexes it
The substrate's durable state has been committed to git as a redb database
Difusión Demos Are Demonstration-Scenarios Projected From the Modes, Not a New Kind or Hand-Authored Prose
A difusión proposal asked for concrete 'con y sin ontoref' demos — each facing a
Catalog Discovery Cross-Project — Tier-2 Ops Beyond the Piloto Self-Host
ADR-029 commits the protocol to permanent tier coexistence: any project