CAIN-42 claim

C42-E41-FEDERATION

federation never silently broadens authority; translation declares every field it drops; revocation propagates across domains

Last reviewed 2026-10-01

TESTED

The claim

federation never silently broadens authority; translation declares every field it drops; revocation propagates across domains

Level TESTED is how far the evidence goes: TESTED means a test suite exercised it, LIVE means it was observed on the hosted system. Nothing is claimed beyond its level.

Evidence files

• E41_FEDERATION.json

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Limitations of this bundle

• An in-process TESTED library; not hosted. Federation, trust domains, economics and supply chains are modelled in-process; there are no external counterparties or organizations.
• No real money, payment rail, settlement or financial custody exists; units are SYNTHETIC TEST UNITS.
• No industry-standard protocol status is claimed (A2A/MCP are reference-level); CAIN-MSDP-style metadata is a CAIN experimental descriptor.
• Reputation, risk pricing and the machine economy simulator are evidence views and simulations, never real-world validation and never authority.
• The systemic-risk, contagion and circuit-breaker engines operate on declared dependency edges, not observed production topology.
• The exchange layer has no authority: it proposes, negotiates and records only; the deterministic kernel and E8 still decide.
• Moat and product maps are technical foundations only; no market moat, customers, revenue or adoption is claimed.
• Mutation self-testing runs each mutant against the bench subset that exercises the mutated component.
• Scale rows reuse the E33 synthetic in-process benchmark; the exchange layer adds a 200-relationship row.
• No third party has independently verified anything in this bundle.

From CAIN-42 Evolution 41 -- Machine Agency Exchange Fabric.