identity-canon/SCOPE.md

SCOPE

One-liner

Orthogonal vocabulary and canonical model for identity-related concepts.

Core Idea

identity-canon is a research and terminology repository. It defines an implementation-neutral vocabulary and conceptual model for identity, accounts, actors, organizations, tenants, communities, families, agents, relationships, and synonymity across IAM, directory, federation, social graph, authorization, decentralized identity, and entity-resolution domains.

In Scope

• Maintain research notes, source summaries, terminology inventories, conflict maps, canonical glossary entries, conceptual model notes, scenario tests, open questions, downstream recommendations, and State Hub workplans.
• Compare overlapping terms across standards, product documentation, social graph models, authorization systems, and privacy/entity-resolution research.
• Keep canonical definitions separate from external product mappings.
• Record decisions, progress, and workplan status through State Hub.
• Verify changes with markdown review, git diff --check, and ADR-001 consistency checks.

Out of Scope

• Implement identity providers, account-management services, provisioning adapters, authorization engines, UI components, CLI commands, databases, or production APIs.
• Own unrelated adjacent systems or operational identity lifecycle tooling.
• Make irreversible operational decisions without human approval.
• Treat draft canon artifacts as finalized schemas before source-note backfill and scenario review.

Current State

• Status: active research scaffold.
• The repository is currently documentation-only. It has no package manifest, build system, runtime app, or executable test suite.
• IDENTITY-WP-0002 seeded the first terminology, canon, model, scenario, open-question, and downstream recommendation artifacts. The next research pass should backfill individual source notes and revise the draft canon from evidence.

Getting Oriented

• Start with: INTENT.md
• Research proposal: ResearchProposal.md
• Corpus index: research/CorpusIndex.md
• Draft canon: canon/CanonicalGlossary.md and model/ConceptualModel.md
• Agent instructions: AGENTS.md
• Workplans: workplans/