LIFE Protocol Conformance Statement
Alignment with LIFE Core: Principles, Guarantees, and Boundaries.
Overview & Scope
Alignment with LIFE Core: Principles, Guarantees, and Boundaries
Purpose of This Statement
This Conformance Statement documents how all official LIFE Protocol documents, specifications, and explanatory materials derive their authority from and conform to the canonical document: LIFE Core: Principles, Guarantees, and Boundaries
The LIFE Core governs interpretation, implementation, and extension of the LIFE Protocol.
Where ambiguity arises, LIFE Core controls.
Scope
This statement applies to:
- protocol papers
- technical specifications
- government explainers
- legislative briefs
- constitutional mappings
- developer documentation
- SDKs and reference implementations
Any document claiming LIFE alignment must conform to the LIFE Core.
Canonical Rule (Restated)
LIFE is open in principle, precise in interface, and private in enforcement.
All conformance is evaluated against this rule.
Document Conformance Map
1. LIFE Protocol – V1
(For Humanity, For a Thousand Years)
Conforms by:
- Establishing human sovereignty as foundational
- Defining identity as continuity, not account
- Rejecting custodial identity and central authority
Non-Extension Clause:
Does not introduce enforcement, governance, or scoring mechanisms.
2. LIFE Technical Paper – V1
(Architecture, Interfaces, and Security Posture)
Conforms by:
- Translating LIFE Core principles into system properties
- Preserving separation between identity, authority, and infrastructure
- Explicitly documenting what remains private
Non-Extension Clause:
Does not specify cryptographic internals or enforcement logic.
3. LIFE Specification – V1
(Privacy, Transparency, and Contextual Separation)
Conforms by:
- Implementing privacy through separation rather than obfuscation
- Treating consent and scope as first-class controls
- Avoiding global correlation or universal visibility
Non-Extension Clause:
Does not mandate any specific privacy technology or zero-knowledge system.
4. Reputation & Dispute Resolution – Government Explainer
Conforms by:
- Separating reputation from identity
- Treating reputation as contextual signals, not scores
- Explicitly rejecting adjudication and enforcement
Non-Extension Clause:
Does not define penalties, thresholds, or automatic consequences.
5. Legislative Briefs (Federal and State)
Conforms by:
- Affirming that LIFE does not exercise sovereign authority
- Preserving courts, regulators, and due process
- Treating LIFE as evidentiary infrastructure only
Non-Extension Clause:
Does not create new legal standards or enforcement regimes.
6. Constitutional Due Process Mappings
(U.S. Constitution, Utah Constitution)
Conforms by:
- Demonstrating non-deprivation of rights
- Preserving judicial power and separation of powers
- Rejecting punishment, stigma, or automated exclusion
Non-Extension Clause:
Does not claim constitutional substitution or supremacy.
7. Digital World Docs – Build on LIFE
Conforms by:
- Treating LIFE as protocol-layer infrastructure
- Preserving participant authority over applications
- Aligning commerce and payments with consent and redeemability
Non-Extension Clause:
Does not convert LIFE into a platform or marketplace authority.
Implementation Conformance Requirements
An implementation may claim “LIFE-Conformant” only if it:
- preserves participant sovereignty
- avoids custodial identity
- uses proof-based interaction
- respects contextual separation
- does not enforce behavior
- does not assign global reputation scores
- honors the right to exit
Failure in any of the above constitutes non-conformance.
Non-Conformance Indicators (Red Flags)
The following are explicit indicators of non-conformance:
- centralized identity ownership
- permanent or global reputation scoring
- automated punishment or exclusion
- mandatory data disclosure
- hidden correlation across contexts
- enforcement logic embedded in protocol
Any system exhibiting these traits must not represent itself as LIFE-based.
Stewardship & Status
All future LIFE documents, SDKs, APIs, and integrations must include a brief statement of conformance referencing this page and the LIFE Core.
Extensions may add capability.
They may not alter principles, guarantees, or boundaries.
Closing Statement
The LIFE Protocol is defined by restraint as much as by capability. Conformance ensures that LIFE remains human-centered, lawful, and durable across generations.
Status
This Conformance Statement is normative. It may be cited in:
- legislative records
- regulatory reviews
- architectural audits
- judicial analysis
- public documentation