Glossary
Definitions for the SSOAR vocabulary.
This glossary defines the terms used across the Hermes-Echo and SSOAR site.
SSOAR
Session-Scoped Orthogonal Authority and Routing: the architectural thesis that live interactions need a session-native authority layer across orchestration, policy, computation, and routing.
Session authority
The governed capacity of a live interaction to determine whether an action, signal, route, accommodation, AI output, or state transition is admissible.
Authority continuity
Continuity of admissibility and governance across session mutation, not merely continuity of connection or transport.
Transport continuity
The persistence or restoration of the signal path. Transport continuity does not by itself decide whether the signal remains authorized.
Capability
The ability of a system, vendor, agent, integration, or component to perform an action.
Authority
The right of that action to become admissible inside the governed interaction.
Compliance boundary
The point where proof must be produced during the interaction rather than reconstructed after the fact.
Coordination limit
The point where fragmented components, policies, agents, participants, and services produce more coordination overhead than governance capacity.
Concurrence
The problem of multiple actors or state changes occurring close enough in time that authority, timing, and admissibility must be resolved together.
Failure domain
A class of external failure that maps back to the same architectural gap.
Proof case
A domain that makes the architectural requirement unusually visible. Accessibility is the proof case for session authority.
Derivative state
Records, summaries, actions, memory surfaces, artifacts, or downstream effects created by an interaction or by an agent participating in it.
Interaction fork
A participant-specific derivative path, such as an agent, accommodation, recording, summary, or action trail that may outlive the original session.
Diligence packet
The homepage and linked public materials that give a qualified reader the patent posture, thesis frame, provenance, and engagement path.