Authority,
Consensus &
Specification Evolution
The requirements separating technical reproducibility from canonical standing—and preserving spatial meaning as the governing specification evolves.
This section establishes the distinction between technical reproducibility and canonical authority. A Survey Fabric specification may be independently understood, implemented, and verified, but technical correctness alone does not make that specification canonical for BitPangea. Canonical adoption, succession, amendment, or replacement belongs to the valid BitPangea authority or consensus process applicable to the standard rather than to the Survey Fabric mathematics themselves.
It also establishes the governing rule for specification evolution: documents, conformance material, and compatible extensions may change, while previously established spatial meaning may not be renumbered, relocated, or reinterpreted through ordinary revision.
Atlas Working Principle Verification can prove correctness. Governance establishes canonical standing. Authority over the standard does not create authority to rewrite immutable spatial truth.
Canonical Authority Is Governed Above the Mathematics
Independent reproduction and verification can establish that a candidate Foundational Survey Fabric specification is internally consistent and correctly implemented, but technical reproducibility alone does not make that specification canonical for BitPangea.
Canonical adoption, succession, amendment, or replacement should occur only through the valid BitPangea authority or consensus process applicable to the standard. The Survey Fabric mathematics should not define or control that governance process itself.
No governance or consensus process may legitimately reinterpret already-protected immutable spatial truth while claiming ordinary continuity with the same canonical Survey system.
Specification Evolution Without Spatial Mutation
The Foundational Survey Fabric specification may evolve through clarification, compatible extension, improved conformance material, and other changes that preserve all previously established canonical spatial meaning. No ordinary specification revision should renumber, relocate, reinterpret, or otherwise alter established spatial truth. Any proposed change that would do so must be treated as a fundamentally different class of change and subjected to whatever higher constitutional or consensus review is required.
Section Standing
Findings #16–#17 establish the separation between technical reproducibility and canonical standing, while preserving a strict boundary between Survey Fabric mathematics and the BitPangea authority process that governs the standard. Compatible specification evolution may clarify or extend the system, but it must preserve every previously established canonical spatial meaning.