Objective: publicly lock the minimum decisions that make External Authority Control (EAC) readable, enforceable, and unambiguous, without publishing operational protocol.
This page does not describe how to qualify an external authority. It establishes what is now considered canonical regarding the layer, its scope, and its boundaries. For the definition and doctrine: canonical definition · EAC doctrine.
1. The 8 minimum decisions
- EAC designates the layer, never the default metric.
By default, “EAC” refers to the governance layer. Any metric use must be named explicitly. - EAC-gap designates the measured differential.
EAC-gap is a diagnostic reading, distinct from the layer. It observes a gap rather than governing by itself. - EAC qualifies admissible authority, not absolute truth.
EAC bounds what may constrain interpretation. Truth remains tied to evidence, context, and legitimacy rules, notably the Q-Layer. - Admissibility is claim-scoped, time-scoped, and scope-bound.
An admissibility statement applies at the level of a claim, within a time, and inside a scope. - Relocalization does not transform the exogenous into the endogenous.
Copying, citing, mirroring, archiving, or hashing an external source does not, in itself, change its ontological status. Popularity and recurrence do not canonize authority. - EAC indeterminacy must propagate a constraint toward the Q-Layer.
When external admissibility status is undetermined and materially affects a response, doctrine imposes harder output conditions. - A2 does not automatically derive from EAC.
An authority may be admissible without requiring amplification. EAC governs admissibility; A2 governs exposure. - Layer 3 begins only where authority becomes executable.
As long as the regime remains reconstruction and restitution, EAC bounds interpretation. As soon as an output triggers an action, the relevant regime is no longer EAC alone but an executable authority regime.
2. What these decisions lock
These decisions do not form a method. They form a minimum doctrinal jurisdiction. They prevent, among other things:
- treating EAC as a score without qualifying it;
- treating the mere circulation of a source as authority;
- confusing interpretive admissibility with permission to act;
- using the layer as a substitute for the final response decision.
In other words, they lock the vocabulary, the boundaries, and the non-drifts allowed around EAC.
3. Scope and non-disclosure
- Public: definitions, boundaries, doctrinal states, articulation between layers, scope limits.
- Private: internal criteria, weightings, detailed transitions, decision logs, calibrations, and tooling.
That separation is deliberate. It protects doctrine against recipe drift and preserves a clear boundary between public canon and mandate-only protocol.
4. Canonical articulation
The reference doctrinal sequence is: external graph → EAC → governed negation / arbitration → Q-Layer.
That articulation means that external mapping precedes qualification, qualification precedes arbitration, and arbitration precedes governed output.