P1-REQ-13-5-013

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Statement

The Policy and Release Plane SHALL support policy-governed release without requiring all protected information to pass through a single central policy mechanism.

Source

Part 1, Section 13.5: Runtime Plane Requirements.

Rationale

The Policy and Release Plane supports governed release across distributed Nodes, authorities, and jurisdictions. A single central policy mechanism creates architectural concentration and conflicts with distributed governance, sovereignty, residency, and resilience concerns.

This requirement preserves distributed policy-governed release at the conceptual level and allows later logical realisation through multiple policy enforcement, decision, administration, information, obligation, release, and audit capabilities.

Applies To

This requirement applies to Policy and Release Plane definitions and references within the Conceptual Architecture.

It applies specifically to:

Policy-governed releaseProtected informationDistributed policy mechanismsSovereignty and residency concernsRelease governance

Verification

Verification SHALL confirm that the Policy and Release Plane supports policy-governed release without requiring all protected information to pass through a single central policy mechanism.

Verification activities include review checks confirming that:

Policy-governed release does not require a single central mechanismProtected information handling supports distributed governancePolicy and Release Plane descriptions preserve distributed policy conceptsLater logical profiles support distributed policy capabilities without redefining the conceptual plane

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Status

Draft

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