Connection does not establish reciprocity. Permissions remain local to the session. Observer status confers no onward rights.
Definitions / Standard COMMON usage
COMMON works across people, places, services and jurisdictions. A few definitions to help you find your way around.
COMMON / 01
The certified human-machine interoperability environment through which bodily, perceptual, clinical and service states may participate in defined reciprocal activity. COMMON may refer to the underlying protocol, the certified environment through which it operates, or the ordinary state of participation itself. COMMON does not imply or guarantee reciprocity.
COMMON / 02
A bounded period of certified COMMON participation with a defined opening condition, active rights state and exit condition. A session may contain one or more reciprocal, observational, clinical or provider relationships. The existence of a session does not require every participant to share the same rights. A session begins before reciprocity begins and may remain active after reciprocity ends.
COMMON / 03
The agreed condition under which participants may give, receive, return, retain or pass onward defined states through COMMON. Reciprocity may apply to people, institutions, services, jurisdictions or certified machine participants. Reciprocal standing is not necessarily symmetrical. Connection does not establish reciprocity.
COMMON / 04
A certified order of reciprocal standing applied within a session, baseline-linked continuity state or authorised return sequence. Priority may determine which certified relationship is resolved first where multiple valid reciprocal claims exist simultaneously. Priority does not establish ownership, emotional precedence or onward rights. Priority is procedural, not personal.
COMMON / 05
A reciprocal condition under which no person, provider, state or certified participant receives structural precedence solely by virtue of existing status, historical access or prior standing. No Priority does not remove local rights, consent conditions or certified exclusions. It removes automatic precedence. Existing agreements may require rebound.
COMMON / 06
The certified reference condition against which variance, continuity, return or material change may be assessed. A baseline may include bodily state, calibration, sensory response, reciprocal architecture, consent condition, clinical status or rights state. A participant may retain more than one valid baseline. Not all valid baselines carry equal standing. Historical does not mean inactive.
COMMON / 07
A non-reciprocal participant authorised to witness, receive or audit defined outputs without assuming the full return obligations of the originating reciprocal state. Observer status may be local, temporary, sovereign, clinical or procedural. Observation does not create onward rights. An observer may be present without being reciprocal.
COMMON / 08
The voluntary, clinical, technical, judicial or protective limitation of defined reciprocal COMMON functions while other certified states remain active. An islanded participant may remain alive, present, identifiable, clinically visible and locally connected. The affected reciprocal function may nevertheless be unavailable. Islanding is not disconnection.
COMMON / 09
A certified condition in which two participants, providers or jurisdictions are recognised as holding equivalent reciprocal standing for the purpose defined by the relevant agreement. Parity does not imply identical access, identical baseline or identical outbound rights. Two parties may be at parity in one reciprocal class and unequal in another. Parity is local to the right being compared.
COMMON / 10
An independently maintained external record of a participant’s physical state, environment or procedure. Witness exists outside the participant’s own perceptual stream and may therefore retain evidential standing where first-person COMMON output cannot independently certify the participant who produced it. Witness stays physical.
COMMON / 11
A certified permission governing whether received or generated COMMON material may pass beyond the originating reciprocal environment. Outbound rights may apply differently to bodily, perceptual, clinical, archival or derived states. Receipt does not imply outbound authority. What reaches you does not necessarily leave with you.
COMMON / 12
A certified reciprocal condition in which ordinary sessional discontinuity is removed or materially altered. A continuously reciprocal participant does not require repeated session opening in order to remain available to authorised reciprocal states. Continuous does not mean unrestricted. Continuous does not mean public. Continuous does not mean involuntary. Continuous means the participant does not ordinarily leave.
COMMON / 13
The certified transition through which a participant’s continuous reciprocal condition becomes materially established. During acquisition, baseline, field, local continuity and exit conditions remain subject to resolution. Acquisition is complete when the participant’s continuous state no longer depends upon the unresolved transitional field. Acquisition and continuity are not the same event.
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Definitions describe standard COMMON usage only and do not supersede local reciprocity agreements, clinical standing, certified participant rights or jurisdiction-specific conditions. Terms may change without requiring a new baseline unless otherwise stated.
If you are currently islanded, do not use this guide to determine your status.
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