From Identifiable Agents to Authorized Effects - Full English Manuscript
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: How does information about an agent and its principal become a condition that a receiving system enforces on a particular transaction? The source proposal already discusses authorization and bounded, revocable delegation. This brief does not treat it as an identity-only scheme. It examines the integration between identification, consent, execution and outcome accounting. Separate identification, authentication, authorization, enforcement and accountability. A credential may establish the actor without establishing the permitted act. A local decision may refuse a request without preventing an alternative route to the destination. An audit trail may explain an event without having prevented it. The review maps each claim to the component and evidence capable of supporting it, rather than treating a verified badge as proof of all five functions. This record is the complete English manuscript with author-controlled restricted file access. The work is independent of AI Frontiers and is not presented as peer reviewed. Related author edition: https://highlandreflexivepress.net/research/an-identity-is-not-a-warrant/#acquire AI tools assisted editorial preparation and formatting; Tony T. Nguyen is responsible for the research claims.
Author: Nguyen, Tony T.
Language: English
Topic: Access Control and Trust
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7224136553