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Add commercial identity research corpus and binding concepts

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Record deep research on commercial identity coupling across theory, law,
regulation, and software (KYC, LEI, DUNS, eIDAS, CRM). Introduce Commercial
Commitment, Legal Person, and Beneficial Owner to the canon model and document
the fluid-to-bound identity gradient in the conceptual model.
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Bernd Worsch
2026-06-21 20:53:18 +02:00
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@@ -41,6 +41,17 @@ has incompatible meanings across source families.
| customer account | Resolve by layer | billing, IAM, CRM | Not canonical — see TerminologyConflictMap. |
| commercial record | Commercial Record | Stripe, CRM, billing | Record layer; payment/subscription/commerce state. |
| commercial relationship | Commercial Relationship | vendor/customer SaaS | Vendor-to-customer typed relationship. |
| commercial commitment | Commercial Commitment | contracts, subscriptions, KYC | Binding obligation raising identity stakes. |
| beneficial owner | Beneficial Owner | KYC/AML, FinCEN | Natural person controlling legal entity customer. |
| legal person | Legal Person | eIDAS, civil law, agency | Natural or juridical person under law. |
| lei | Identifier (registry) | GLEIF, ISO 17442 | Legal entity identifier for financial markets. |
| duns | Identifier (registry) | D&B | Commercial/credit identifier. |
| uei | Identifier (registry) | SAM.gov | US federal entity identifier. |
| paydex | Evidence Source | D&B | Credit/payment performance history. |
| kyc / cip | Evidence Source + Assurance | FinCEN, FATF | Regulated commercial identity onboarding. |
| crm account | Commercial Record | Salesforce | Company/household commercial record. |
| fluid identity | Persona / weak binding | theory | Low commercial stake; intentional mutability. |
| bound identity | Commercial Commitment present | theory | High counterparty reliance; stable identifiers. |
| tenant | Tenant | ZITADEL org, SaaS, Keycloak (informal) | Administrative/isolation scope. Keycloak realm sometimes called tenant. |
| realm | Realm | Keycloak | Hard identity/admin namespace. Candidate Scope specialization. |
| scope | Scope | OIDC, Cerbos, OpenFGA store, proposal | Boundary for meaning, policy, or correlation. |
@@ -113,6 +124,7 @@ Terms above are grounded in backfilled notes under:
- `research/verifiable-claims/` (3 notes)
- `research/entity-resolution-privacy/` (3 notes)
- `research/commercial-subscription/` (2 notes)
- `research/commercial-identity/` (8 notes)
## Remaining Backfill Needs