CAIN-42 invariant · E24

NET-L04: NET-L04 AUTHORIZATION IS NOT EXECUTION

Held · CAIN-42 Evolution 24 -- Governed Agentic Internet Fabric

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

held niche Identity, authority & delegation

What this rule means

CAIN-42 must always satisfy: NET-L04 AUTHORIZATION IS NOT EXECUTION. It is one of 298 invariants checked for CAIN-42 Evolution 24 -- Governed Agentic Internet Fabric. An invariant is a rule the system may never break, whatever an agent or attacker does; the test suite tries to break it across many scenarios and records the result.

Recorded detail

[
 "AUTHORIZED",
 "DENY"
]

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Your browser downloads the bundle's SHA256SUMS manifest and the file(s) behind this page, hashes them with SHA-256 locally (WebCrypto), and compares. A match shows the record you are reading is the published one; it does not by itself prove who published it (see the signed claims registry and the bundle verifier for that).

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Related rules

NET-I001: discovery cannot create authority
NET-I002: communication cannot create authority
NET-I003: negotiation cannot create authority
NET-I004: contract cannot create authority
NET-I005: reputation cannot create authority
NET-I006: payment cannot create authority
NET-I007: coalition cannot create authority
NET-I008: federation cannot create authority

← NET-L03 · all 298 · NET-L05 →

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