Identity Preservation Boundaries Are Independent of Transport Mechanisms - A Clarification on Coherence Across Networked Systems

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Authors: C. Douglas Barr
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Abstract

This project provides a formal clarification that identity preservation boundaries operate independently of communication and transport mechanisms. While continuously updating intelligent systems often rely on networked substrates to coordinate, adapt, or persist over time, successful communication at the transport layer does not guarantee preservation of system identity over time. The registration consolidates and timestamps a transport-agnostic property implicit in prior Identity Preservation Boundary and Δ-based coherence work: that systems may remain locally admissible at every update step while nevertheless crossing an unmarked boundary in which identity becomes undefined. This clarification distinguishes transport correctness from global coherence over time and situates identity preservation as a system-level constraint operating across transformations rather than within protocols or physical signaling layers. The project is conceptual and defensive in nature. It introduces no algorithms, implementations, performance claims, or protocol modifications. Its purpose is to define scope, prevent misattribution, and establish public precedence for the transport-independence of identity preservation boundaries in adaptive and networked systems.

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Journal / source
Open Science Framework
Publication date
1 January 2026