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