ICT-Governance-Framework-Application

RPAS‑CM‑TAR‑001 v1.0.0 (CSR-42)

Traceability, Authority & Responsibility Protocol

Purpose

As ADPA scales to multi-agent, multi-tier, and multi-stakeholder collaboration, the risks of authority misunderstood, lineage fragmentation, and responsibility gaps increase. The RPAS-TAR protocol ensures that every action, artifact, and decision is attributable to a verifiable owner and that no authority domain exceeds its predefined boundaries.

This protocol enforces:


1. Traceability Requirements

T1 — Artifact Traceability

Every governed artifact must store its complete origin and decision lineage:

Enforces G3: Complete reconstructibility of truth.


T2 — Actor Traceability

Every execution and state mutation must log the full chain-of-custody:


2. Authority Boundaries

T3 — Authority Enforcement (Tiers)

Each tier in the ADPA ecosystem is prohibited from performing actions outside its authority:

Tier Authority Responsibility
Intelligence Advisory only AI-driven research and proposal drafting (JSON).
Experience Read + Decision UI Visualization and human authorization rituals.
Orchestration Sole Executor Execution rituals, RTM seeding, and CSR stamping.
Data Append-only Ledger Immutable storage of governance events.

G1 + G5 enforcement: No implicit writes; the Orchestrator is the sole authority for state mutation.


T4 — Non-Overlap Rule

Tiers must have strictly disjoint responsibilities to prevent authority collisions:


3. Responsibility Assignment

T5 — Ritual Conformance

Every system action must map to exactly one ritual stage in the canonical lifecycle: Ideation → Business Case → Approval → RTM Seed → Amendment Proposal → Amendment Decision → Execution → CSR Baseline


T6 — Deterministic Responsibility

Given the same inputs, amendments, and CSR version, the system’s response must be identical. Responsibility for divergence lies with the actor that bypassed the deterministic execution ritual.


4. Governance Lineage