MO-001 — Governed Distributed Test Environments

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DIDO-TE SHALL restrict each operation on a Test Environment according to the Governance Policies of the Test Environment's governing Domain.

This requirement consolidates mission-level intent from the following Original Requirements in the draft DIDO-TE Requirements Register:

• REQ-0001 — Three-level governance hierarchy
• REQ-0002 — Governance organs per level
• REQ-0003 — Membership request workflow
• REQ-0005 — Legal documents per governance level
• REQ-0006 — Additive-only legal-document inheritance
• REQ-0008 — Domain access-control quadrant declaration
• REQ-0009 — Tenancy isolation along governance boundaries
• REQ-0010 — Domain-scoped environments
• REQ-0086 — Substrate as a governed object with a recorded lifecycle

The source requirements establish the governance hierarchy, governance roles, Governance Policies, authorization boundaries, tenancy boundaries, Domain ownership of Test Environments, and governance of supporting infrastructure.

MO-001 expresses the common mission-level outcome. The detailed governance, authorization, isolation, environment ownership, and lifecycle obligations remain separate Operational, Functional, Security, Logging and Auditing, and Data Management Requirements.

A Test Environment can consume infrastructure, execute software, exchange information, create Evidence, access protected resources, and affect systems operated by multiple organizations.

DIDO-TE requires an explicit governance context for each Test Environment so that DIDO-TE can determine:

• Which Domain governs the Test Environment
• Which Governance Policies apply
• Which principals may perform each operation
• Which resources the Test Environment may use
• Which information the Test Environment may access
• Which operational boundaries apply
• Which records DIDO-TE must preserve
• Which approvals DIDO-TE requires
• Which organization remains accountable for the Test Environment

Governance applies throughout the Test Environment lifecycle. Governance does not end after DIDO-TE creates or provisions the Test Environment.

The detailed requirements define the operations subject to governance and the mechanism for determining the applicable Governance Policies. MO-001 establishes the mission-level obligation to apply those policies consistently.

This requirement applies to:

• DIDO-TE
• Test Environments
• Distributed Systems
• Governing Domains
• Governance Policies
• Governance roles
• Authorized principals
• Test Environment operations
• Test Environment resources
• Nodes
• Node Sets
• Deployment Targets
• Virtual Networks
• Test Definitions
• Test Runs
• Test Results
• Baseline Results
• Validation Decisions
• Evidence
• Provenance
• Traceability
• Connected Environments
• Disconnected Environments
• Air-Gapped Environments

Verification confirms that:

1. Each Test Environment identifies exactly one governing Domain
2. DIDO-TE identifies the Governance Policies applicable to the Test Environment
3. DIDO-TE identifies the operations governed by each applicable Governance Policy
4. DIDO-TE identifies the principal requesting each Test Environment operation
5. DIDO-TE evaluates each requested operation against the applicable Governance Policies
6. DIDO-TE permits an operation when the applicable Governance Policies authorize the requesting principal to perform the operation
7. DIDO-TE refuses an operation when the applicable Governance Policies do not authorize the requesting principal to perform the operation
8. DIDO-TE refuses an operation when the Test Environment does not identify a valid governing Domain
9. DIDO-TE prevents a principal governed by one tenancy boundary from operating a Test Environment governed by another tenancy boundary unless the applicable Governance Policies explicitly authorize the operation
10. DIDO-TE applies the Governance Policies throughout the Test Environment lifecycle
11. DIDO-TE records the governing Domain, requesting principal, requested operation, authorization result, operation result, and applicable Governance Policies
12. The verification record preserves Traceability among the Test Environment, governing Domain, applicable Governance Policies, requesting principal, requested operation, authorization result, operation result, and supporting Evidence

The following pages reference this requirement:

Not Assessed

Assess the current DIDO-TE implementation against MO-001 and its supporting Operational, Functional, Security, Logging and Auditing, and Data Management Requirements.

Review and approve MO-001 as a proposed Mission Objective derived from the governance and Test Environment requirements in the draft DIDO-TE Requirements Register.

The following unresolved issues affect this requirement:

Define Test Environment in the shared DIDO Solutions Terms and Definitions corpus.

Define Governance Policy in the shared DIDO Solutions Terms and Definitions corpus or identify the applicable controlling term.

Define the complete set of Test Environment operations governed by MO-001.

Define how DIDO-TE determines the governing Domain for a Test Environment.

Define how DIDO-TE resolves Governance Policies inherited through the governance hierarchy.

Define the precedence and conflict-resolution rules for Governance Policies established at different levels of the governance hierarchy.

Define the authorization decision required when an applicable Governance Policy is missing, invalid, unavailable, or internally inconsistent.

Define the Evidence DIDO-TE preserves for each governance decision and Test Environment operation.

This requirement page should retain the stable requirement identifier MO-001.

This page is a leaf requirement page and omits a trailing :start from its namespace.

MO-001 consolidates mission-level intent from multiple Original Requirements. MO-001 does not result from splitting a single parent requirement and therefore uses a Source section rather than a Derived From section.

Changes to the Statement should preserve:

• DIDO-TE as the responsible actor
• Each Test Environment operation as the governed activity
• Governance Policies as the controlling rules
• The Test Environment's governing Domain as the source of the applicable governance context
• Enforcement of the applicable Governance Policies as the required outcome

The supporting requirements should define:

• The governance hierarchy
• The relationship between a Test Environment and its governing Domain
• The applicable governance roles
• The governed Test Environment operations
• Governance Policy inheritance
• Governance Policy precedence
• Governance Policy conflict resolution
• Authorization decisions
• Tenancy isolation
• Test Environment lifecycle governance
• Governance records
• Governance Evidence
• Governance decision Provenance
• Governance decision Traceability

Material changes should receive review and should update the verification criteria, source records, supporting requirements, and Issues section.

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