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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.
Authorization provenance binds a decision to the exact semantic artifact and trusted context that were authorized.
At minimum, provenance SHOULD bind:
The term “provenance” can become decorative unless it is cryptographically or structurally bound to the artifact. Future work needs tamper evidence, key management, proof formats, revocation, distributed lineage, and downgrade resistance.
Define canonical provenance serialization, signing/attestation profiles, key rotation, revocation, proof verification, and stale-proof behavior.
An executable artifact with altered semantics, altered authorization context, stale policy, or invalid provenance MUST fail before provider execution.
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