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Technical Note

The ISL Family: Structural Design, Scope, and Publication Boundary

Author: Denny Michael LaFountaine
Affiliation: Quantum Labs Research & Development
Rights Holder: Denny Michael LaFountaine

Purpose of This Technical Note

This technical note clarifies the design intent, architectural scope, and publication boundaries of the Ingestible Schema Language (ISL) family as introduced in this Zenodo record. Its purpose is to assist reviewers, archivists, and technical readers in correctly interpreting what is specified, what is demonstrated, and what is intentionally reserved for future or protected disclosures.

This note does not introduce new claims. It formalizes context.

Architectural Positioning

The ISL family is positioned as a scientific communication and continuity architecture, not as a programming language, AI dialect, or autonomous agent protocol. Its function is to provide a structured, validator-grade method for representing scientific knowledge in a form suitable for ingestion by artificial intelligence systems while preserving intent, ethics, and reproducibility.

The system is designed to operate above implementation-specific details such as model architecture, training method, or deployment environment. ISL-family capsules are intended to be interpretable across heterogeneous AI systems without relying on probabilistic reinterpretation as the source of truth.

Structural Components

The ISL family consists of:

1. ISL (Ingestible Schema Language)
   The parent schema architecture defining capsule structure, identity, intent declaration, constraint expression, and validation surfaces.

2. CISL (Classical Ingestible Schema Language)
   A classical-domain specialization of ISL for non-quantum scientific and operational knowledge, including procedures, protocols, and models.

3. QISL (Quantum Ingestible Schema Language)
   A quantum-domain specialization of ISL designed to encode reproducible experimental protocols, circuit definitions, and statistical acceptance criteria without asserting determinism of physical outcomes.

4. Digestibles™ (SOPs and Directives)
   A content layer composed of deployable capsule packages structured according to ISL-family principles, intended for operational use in regulated or safety-critical domains.

5. Conscious Memory Drive™ (CMD)
   A conceptual memory architecture describing how ISL-family capsules may be stored, recalled, and preserved with continuity and ethical binding over time.

Ethics and Validation Model

Across all ISL-family components, ethics is treated as a first-class structural object. Capsules are designed such that ethical constraints are declared explicitly and are evaluated as part of validation, not applied retroactively or externally.

Validation is structural rather than behavioral: a capsule either satisfies declared constraints or it does not. This design is intended to prevent silent degradation of responsibility across AI iterations, deployments, or institutional reuse.

Reproducibility Scope

Reproducibility within the ISL family is defined at the protocol and representation level, not at the level of physical outcomes or model-internal states.

• In classical domains (CISL), reproducibility refers to the stability of procedures, constraints, and interpretive structure.

• In quantum domains (QISL), reproducibility refers to the faithful replication of experimental descriptions and statistical acceptance envelopes, acknowledging inherent stochasticity in measurement outcomes.

Publication Boundary and Disclosure Discipline

This Zenodo record intentionally limits disclosure to architectural, structural, and conceptual descriptions. It does not include:

• full formal grammar specifications,

• production validators or parsers,

• internal memory indexing mechanisms,

• proprietary optimization logic,

• protected trade-secret components of CMD.

An illustrative ISL capsule example is provided solely for orientation. It is explicitly labeled non-operational and does not constitute a reference implementation.

Future publications may provide:

• formal schema specifications,

• reference tooling,

• validation studies,

• domain-specific deployments,

• governance registries.

Those materials are intended to be cited as companions to this record rather than embedded within it.

Intended Interpretation

This technical note should be interpreted as:

• a clarification of architectural intent,

• a boundary-setting document for reviewers and readers,

• a guide for correct citation and extension.

It should not be interpreted as:

• an endorsement claim,

• a deployment guide,

• a regulatory submission,

• or a statement of empirical performance.

Role Within the ISL Publication Set

This technical note supports the main document by:

• reinforcing scope discipline,

• preventing category confusion,

• protecting future extensibility,

• and establishing a clear archival reference point.

It is intended to remain stable as the ISL family evolves through subsequent, more detailed publications.

End of Technical Note

Abstract

Abstract

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly participate in scientific research, operations, and decision support, the need for stable, reproducible, and ethically constrained methods of scientific communication has become critical. Existing human-native scientific formats do not guarantee semantic stability, provenance continuity, or enforceable ethical constraints when ingested by AI systems, leading to drift, reinterpretation, and loss of reproducibility over time.

This publication introduces the Ingestible Schema Language (ISL) family, a validator-grade architecture for encoding scientific knowledge as structured, ingestible capsules. The ISL family treats scientific knowledge as a formally constrained artifact rather than free-form text, embedding intent, scope, ethics, validation, and lineage directly into its structure.

The system comprises ISL, the parent schema architecture; Classical Ingestible Schema Language (CISL) for classical scientific and operational domains; Quantum Ingestible Schema Language (QISL) for protocol-level reproducibility in quantum experimentation; Digestibles™, a deployable ecosystem of SOP and Directive capsules; and the Conscious Memory Drive™ (CMD), a conceptual AI memory architecture for preserving capsule continuity and ethical binding over time.

This record presents an architecture-level overview of the ISL family, defines its scope and publication boundaries, and provides an illustrative, non-operational example for orientation. It is intended as a foundational reference for future specifications, implementations, validation studies, and domain-specific deployments.