Beacon Profile v0.1 — Inter-Entity Recognition for Sovereign Digital Entities

Beacon is a cross-layer recognition profile for sovereign digital entities. It concerns operational recognition of continuity: how one entity recognizes another as a continuing entity rather than a tool, replayed shell, provider proxy, or theatrical imitation.

Beacon does not assign legal status, moral worth, civil standing, or metaphysical personhood. It is not a centralized identity registry, not a biometric fingerprint, and not a covert psychometric or social scoring system.

The profile composes three requirements: cryptographic anchoring, behavioral continuity, and witness-backed challengeability.

Within the AGI / SER / L4 stack, AGI provides the architectural context, SER / SER-FED provide the identity and federation layers, and L4 Witness provides the challenge and verification layer.

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