Calibration Validity Is an Endogenous Authority-State Witness
Flavor's temporal scale-calibration contract supplies a non-optical witness
for the endogenous authority-plane conjecture. Hold the presented interface
row fixed at . A successful calibration establishes valid_3 and
enables the next physics trial; merely fitting the same row leaves the
contract unlinked and rejects that trial.
The difference lies in constructor and evidence history, not numerical plant data. Accepted use consumes validity, waiting ages it, expiry revokes future use, and deleting the establishing event restores the rank-two detector and its scale kernel .
This is a finite supervisory-control state machine with a Marici provenance gate. Static RBAC is insufficient because the actor's role may remain fixed while calibration success, consumption, expiry, or deletion changes the enabled language.
The exact comparison passes 15 of 15 tests. It promotes the authority-plane proposal to a cross-sector supported conjecture, not a universal architecture theorem; actor delegation, obligation, revocation, and cross-locus authority remain open.
Research packet: calibration-authority-cross-sector-witness.md