Counterparty Identity Records
The substrate maintains one or more counterparty identity records corresponding to entities encountered by the agent in the course of substrate operation, including peer agents, peer devices, individual human users, and organizational entities. Each record comprises a counterparty identifier, a counterparty scope object, an encounter history within the lineage field, a persistence designation, and one or more attestation references verifying the counterparty's claimed identity.
The counterparty identifier identifies the encountered entity using identity primitives applicable to the entity type. The counterparty scope object specifies the admissible categories of inference dispatch involving the counterparty, the admissible categories of lineage record disclosure to the counterparty, the admissible categories of training corpus contribution from the counterparty, and the procedural requirements for cross-substrate operations affecting the counterparty. It is evaluated at each interaction event involving the counterparty.
The persistence designation specifies whether the record is ephemeral, persistent, or promoted-from-ephemeral. An ephemeral record is retained only for the duration of an active encounter session and is archived or deleted under retention policy upon session termination. A persistent record is retained across encounter sessions. A promoted-from-ephemeral record is an ephemeral record converted to persistent under the counterparty promotion policy.
Each interaction is recorded in the lineage field as an encounter event referencing the counterparty identity record updated by the encounter. The encounter event records the counterparty identifier, the negotiated encounter scope, the information exchanged in summary form, the duration of the encounter, and any persistence designation change applied to the record as a result of the encounter.
Disclosure Scope
This article describes subject matter disclosed in U.S. Provisional Application No. 64/070,239. It is provided for technical background and does not constitute legal advice or a representation of claim scope.
