CAIN-42 invariant · E24
NET-O-identity-provider: identity-provider outage denies instead of trusting
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: identity-provider outage denies instead of trusting. 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
[
"CALLER_IDENTITY_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE",
"DEPENDENCY_UNAVAILABLE:identity-provider",
"TARGET_IDENTITY_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE"
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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-S-container-rollback · all 298 · NET-O-attestation-provider →
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