Authority Surfaces

The same authority problem recurring under a different vocabulary in each domain.

These are not seven arguments. They are one argument in seven vocabularies.

• Capability and Authority

  Capability explains what can be done. Authority decides what may become admissible inside the interaction.

• Memory and Authority

  Memory creates derivative state that must remain bound to the governed interaction.

• Attention and Authority

  Attention becomes a governed surface when it occurs inside a live interaction.

• Token and Authority

  Tokens are evidence of authorization, not the live authority-bearing object itself.

• Access and Authority

  Access decisions need an interaction boundary to remain coherent across change.

• Provenance

  A record is useful only when it can bind what happened to the governed event.

• Token Toll Reconciliation

  Tokenized obligations require continuity across the event that gives them meaning.