Part 12
The Master System Architecture
Ten layers, their interfaces, their failure behaviour, and the research question that binds them: whether physical, cryptographic, temporal and historical evidence can be composed into a single continuously-updated system trust state that governs what a distributed node is permitted to do.
Completion artifacts
These documents must exist, be internally reviewed and be baselined before the next Part begins. Status here is the artifact's real state, never its intended state.
AQ-MSA-001
Master System Architecture Document
The ten layers formalised, with enforcement classification per property.
Drafted
AQ-TSM-000
Trust State Model Specification v0
States, transitions, recovery sequence; every threshold a declared assumption.
Drafted
AQ-NRA-001
AQ-NODE-01 Reference Architecture
Internal blocks, the five trust boundaries, and what enforces each.
Drafted
AQ-EFD-000
Evidence Fabric Data Model v0
Record schema answering the ten questions, with third-party verification.
Drafted
AQ-ICD-REG-001
Interface Control Document Register
Six ICDs, each specifying failure and absence semantics before implementation.
Drafted
AQ-Y1A-001
Year-1 Prototype Architecture
The Y1 subset only, with an explicit exclusions table so scope creep is visible.
Drafted
AQ-AAR-001
Architecture Assumption Register
Every assumption with its consequence if false and the experiment that tests it.
Drafted
AQ-ARR-001
Architecture Risk Register
Architectural risks, including the four thesis falsification modes as tracked risks.
Drafted