SRC-NIST-02 · official security standard
SP 800-53 Rev. 5 — AC-5 and AC-6
Includes separation-of-duties and least-privilege controls relevant by analogy to separation of machine powers.
NIST — official/source page ↗Emergency governance
Emergency Machine Authority
A proposed authority token for exceptional machine powers with trigger, legal basis, scope, response ceiling, expiration, automatic sunset and post-emergency deletion.
Technical design proposal / research synthesisFact / proposal boundaries enforcedv0.14.0
Answer first
How do temporary machine powers avoid becoming permanent?
Exceptional authority should be explicitly compiled with an expiry: trigger, scope, rights affected, permitted data, response ceiling, independent review, deletion rules and conditions for any fresh authorization. The emergency system must not be able to renew itself.
Hard case
Catastrophe creates real pressure
After a genuine attack or systemic failure, institutions face asymmetric blame for missing threats. That pressure can rationally push thresholds downward and retention upward. The constitutional design must work under that pressure, not only in calm conditions.
Sunset
Continuation requires a new grant
A temporary rule that persists because nobody removed it is not a meaningful sunset. The architecture should automatically terminate exceptional permissions unless the appropriate authority affirmatively renews them.
Clickable evidence
Sources supporting the factual layer
Source links establish traceability and support. They do not imply that the source endorses Concresca’s constitutional proposals.
Judgment-free total cognitive freedom
NO JUDGMENT WHATSOEVER. Concresca coordinates without assigning moral worth, character, guilt, danger, trustworthiness, loyalty, purity, normality, or social standing. Questions, thoughts, identities, messages, content, and conduct are not objects of Concresca judgment.