Core

Terminology

Status: normative. Document version 1.0-draft-1.

• Person: the individual who controls a record.
• Record: the person's stored context, partitioned where needed and protected by the provider.
• Partition: a selected portion of the record; the historical wire field is profile_id.
• Handle: the opaque, normally pairwise address a recipient uses after consent.
• Entry: a typed fact, preference or state with provenance, versions and temporal validity.
• Overlay: an explicitly enabled, bounded preference targeting a standing baseline.
• Domain/key: a vocabulary category and its exact admitted value definition.
• Level: the permitted disclosure detail, L0 to L3; every level requires a grant.
• Recipient/client: the authenticated assistant or service requesting a defined capability.
• Grant: the provider's stored authority for one recipient and purpose, approved by the person.
• Read receipt: the owner-visible evidence committed with a disclosure.
• Purge instruction: a signed request to delete copies obtained under an ended grant.
• Provider: a service implementing declared Autonym capabilities; conformance requires evidence.

References to other standards and projects describe intended technical alignment only and do not imply endorsement or partnership.