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Status: Draft 1.0 — Forward-looking specification and gap analysis.
This document is not a reverse-engineering report and is not a claim that the reference implementation already satisfies every requirement. It defines the target architecture for a production-grade, provider-neutral Semantic Execution System (SES), identifies the capabilities that remain to be specified or developed, and gives concrete acceptance criteria for future implementations.
The reference implementation may be used as an informative experiment, but the standard is the authority. Where the implementation and this specification differ, the implementation is considered incomplete until it is brought into conformance or the standard is deliberately amended.
Normative terms MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, and MAY have their usual standards meaning.
The Semantic Contract is the authoritative description of what domain concepts mean and which operations are available. It MUST be distinct from raw storage schema.
A mature contract SHOULD define:
“Current”, “as of”, effective dates, event time, processing time, and historical visibility require a formal model.
A semantic field representing money, distance, quantity, or rates needs canonical units and conversion rules. Silent unit conversion can change meaning.
Synonyms, morphology, Unicode normalization, locale, transliteration, and multilingual labels need deterministic treatment.
Sensitivity and export restrictions should be semantic properties, not ad-hoc provider behavior.
The contract needs explicit evolution semantics so an alias cannot accidentally resolve to a retired or security-sensitive concept.
Define a versioned semantic contract schema, canonical serialization, compatibility rules, temporal/measurement semantics, classification vocabulary, and contract migration protocol.
Two independent implementations given the same contract snapshot MUST derive identical semantic identities and compatible operation capabilities.
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