VERIFICATION SURFACE · AUTHORITY CHAIN

gateAuthorityChainCheck

AUTHORITY VERIFICATION DOES NOT CREATE AUTHORITY.

gateAuthorityChainCheck verifies whether a claimed authority chain is supported by defined authoritative sources and required proof objects. Authority remains external to the system.

CONTROL_SURFACE = trueEXTERNAL_AUTHORITY = falseEXECUTION_PERMISSION = false

CAN

verify source-to-authority bindings
detect missing or invalid authority evidence
bind verification to the defined state

CANNOT

invent institutional authority
treat an admin account as authority
grant capability without complete closure

CONTROL CHAIN

AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE→AUTHORITY PROOF→CHAIN VERIFICATION→AUTHORITY DIMENSION→RIGHTS CLOSURE

AUTHORITY BOUNDARY

Infrastructure, verification, testing, integration and cryptographic integrity can strengthen assurance. None of them creates external institutional authority.

EXECUTION BOUNDARY

No valid Execution Right means no capability and no execution. A control result never substitutes complete rights closure.

FIVE CLOSURE DIMENSIONS

AUTHORITY

RULE

JURISDICTION

TIME

DEPENDENCY

Architecture →Execution Rights →Gate Catalog →