Governance
Trust Principles
ECZ-ID is useful only if its terms keep their meaning. These principles state how ECZ-ID language is to be read, and which equivalences are rejected.
INFORMATIVE DRAFT Informative governance document
Canonical URL: https://www.ecocitizenz.org/pages/trust-principles
Rejected equivalences Link to section: Rejected equivalences
Each pair below names two things that are often conflated. ECZ-ID treats them as distinct.
| Not equal | Why the distinction matters |
|---|---|
| Identity ≠ Authority | Knowing who a subject is says nothing about what it may do. |
| Relationship ≠ Delegation | An employment, ownership or commercial relationship is not, by itself, a grant of scoped authority. |
| Observed ≠ Recorded | Something seen is not the same as something entered in ECZ-ID records. |
| Recorded ≠ Evaluated | A record exists before, and independently of, any assessment of it. |
| Evaluated ≠ Mediated | An evaluation is not an intervention in the action it evaluated. |
| Mediated ≠ Enforced | Mediating a request does not mean the outcome was enforced. |
| Allow ≠ Downstream action occurred | Permission to act is not evidence that the action happened. |
| Receipt ≠ Objective external-world truth | A receipt records an ECZ-ID system event or reference; its evidential meaning depends on its source and context. |
| Website documentation ≠ Current operational state | This site explains the model. Current proof is re-verified in Resolver. |
Reading ECZ-ID language Link to section: Reading ECZ-ID language
- Resolver
- “Resolver shows the current public proof and state available for this ECZ-ID.” It does not show private state or guarantee anything about the subject.
- Documentation
- “This document explains the ECZ-ID model; current proof is re-verified in Resolver.”
- Receipts
- “A receipt records an ECZ-ID system event or reference; its evidential meaning depends on the source and context.”
- Authority and delegation
- “Authority and delegation are scoped, and are not inferred solely from identity or relationship.”
Claims ECZ-ID public surfaces do not make Link to section: Claims ECZ-ID public surfaces do not make
Without specific evidence, ECZ-ID public surfaces do not imply regulatory approval, certification, standards endorsement, customer adoption, safety, compliance, creditworthiness, insurance acceptance or the truth of facts outside ECZ-ID records.
Reading the accountability chain Link to section: Reading the accountability chain
- IDENTITY
- AUTHORITY
- DELEGATION
- INTENT
- CURRENT STATE
- DECISION
- ACTION
- RECEIPT
- EVIDENCE
- RE-VERIFY
Every stage is separate. Where an explanation uses only part of the chain, it is labelled as a subset, as on the Authority Model page.
Where to go next Link to section: Where to go next
Verify — Resolver
- Why leave this site
- This page explains rules. It cannot show whether a particular ECZ-ID, Passport or binding is current.
- Where you go
- Resolver (resolver.ecocitizenz.org)
- Authority there
- Current public proof: a read-only projection of backend-controlled state.
- What happens next
- Open the ECZ-ID or Passport record and re-check its current public status before you rely on it.
Read together Link to section: Read together
Revision history Link to section: Revision history
| Date | Version | Status | Change summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| No controlled revision of this document has been published. Earlier versions of this page on the Shopify-hosted site were not issued under a documentary authority record, so no history is backfilled. | |||
Recommended citation Link to section: Recommended citation
EcoCitizenz Ltd, Trust Principles, DRAFT, https://www.ecocitizenz.org/pages/trust-principles.
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