TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 006
An identifier-key binding does not determine legitimate reputation inheritance, a credential does not determine cross-domain weight, a reputation score does not create present authority, and an authority grant does not establish competence.
Author-affirmed proposition from an unpublished research draft. Not part of the 5,033 published-source scholarly claim layer.
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The distinction matters because autonomous systems move across runtimes, replace keys, change models, decompose into subagents, and operate under delegated authority. A conventional account binds an identifier to a key. It cannot, without additional governance, determine whether the current system legitimately inherits the reputation of an earlier system. A credential states a fact. It does not fix the weight of that fact in a new domain. A reputation score summarizes prior observations. It does not create present authority. A valid authority grant permits an action. It does not establish that the grantee is competent.
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