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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.
Traversal defines how relationships are followed without allowing hidden graph expansion, tenant escape, or authorization bypass.
The standard MUST define limits for:
Simple depth limits are insufficient. A shallow traversal can still explode through high fan-out. The future model needs a semantic cost model that accounts for estimated cardinality and resource consumption.
Authorization must also compose across paths. A path that is individually valid can become invalid when its combined scope crosses tenant, ownership, classification, or purpose constraints.
Define path semantics, path authorization composition, recursive query semantics, cost estimation, cycle handling, and a graph-explosion benchmark.
Every traversal MUST have a bounded resource envelope before provider execution, and every authorized path MUST remain within the original semantic scope.
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