Canonical Reference
Admissibility: Terms + Scope
Canonical definitions, refusals, and scope anchors. CRL-0, observer-only.
Admissibility
Admissibility is a structural continuation condition: a statement about whether a system description can remain coherent under finite resolution, constraint geometry, and irreversible evolution.
It is not a method, a metric, a controller, a policy, or an optimization objective. On the CC surface (CRL-0), admissibility is defined only as scope and boundary—non-operational and non-authoritative.
What Admissibility Refuses
Admissibility refuses interpretations that collapse boundary doctrine into operational leverage, including:
- —Prediction claims — admissibility is not a forecasting device
- —Control or intervention claims — admissibility is not a steering rule
- —Optimization claims — admissibility is not an objective function
- —Procedural instantiation — no steps, harnesses, "how-to," or calibrations
- —Thresholding / cutoffs presented as authority — no implied pass/fail machinery
- —Transport/flow instrumentation on the CC surface — no measurement recipes
What "Testbed" Means
A testbed is a boundary fixture: a constrained reference object used to classify refusal classes and structural limits.
A testbed does not instantiate procedures, mechanisms, thresholds, or harness shapes.
It exists to prevent interpretive drift—anchoring what categories of claims are excluded, and what kinds of continuation statements remain structural rather than operational.
What Lives Where
Compressed Consciousness (CC / CRL-0)
Definitions, scope, exclusions, boundary posture. No mechanisms. No thresholds. No operational recipes.
ZOA Industries (OEL-1)
Downstream evaluation artifacts (where they exist), still non-authoritative, inheriting CC exclusions. No operational enforcement.
Canonical Links
Paper 0
Program foundation + scope posture
Program Index
Full constraint program map
Paper VI (boundary exclusions) and Program Note VI.5 (routing constraints) are forthcoming.
Canonical Terms
Boundary
A declared exclusion class; a limit on interpretation, not a capability.
Exclusion
A prohibited class of claim on this surface.
Observer-only
Descriptive output only; no recommendation, enforcement, or steering.
Non-authoritative
Not a source of truth; cannot certify, decide, or compel.
Refusal class
A named category of non-admissible interpretation or claim.
Procedural drift
The tendency for boundary language to be mistaken for a method.
Evaluation artifact
Downstream, bounded reporting object under OEL-1; inherits exclusions.
This page is a canonical reference.
It defines scope. It does not prescribe action.