{
  "note": "Engineering prioritisation only. Not a legal opinion; no claim of novelty or patentability. Prior-art entries are well-known public techniques recalled by the author, NOT a systematic search.",
  "assets": [
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-001",
      "name": "Sovereign Autonomous Federation (co-signed AFO, local live status)",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "SAML/OIDC federation metadata",
        "SPIFFE trust-domain federation",
        "Kerberos cross-realm trust"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "each party pins the other's key; live status is local, not a signed field",
      "design_around": "EASY: bilateral mTLS + config file gives most of it",
      "implementation": [
        "core.py afo_body/sign_afo/verify_afo",
        "domain.py register_federation"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A30",
        "E37-AFO vectors"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-002",
      "name": "Cross-Domain Governance Negotiation (AGN)",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "FIPA Contract Net Protocol",
        "WS-Policy / WS-Agreement negotiation",
        "ODRL policy offers",
        "TLS handshake transcript hashing"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "signed hash-chained transcript; requirements immutable and owner-only; ACCEPT legal only if the offer satisfies the requirement",
      "design_around": "MODERATE",
      "implementation": [
        "negotiate.py"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A02",
        "E37-A14",
        "E37-A15"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW-MODERATE",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-003",
      "name": "Authority-Bounded Federation Contract",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "object-capability attenuation",
        "macaroons caveats",
        "OAuth 2.0 token exchange RFC 8693 scope downscoping",
        "XACML"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "contract rejected unless inside the intersection of both live local authorities; re-checked per request",
      "design_around": "EASY",
      "implementation": [
        "core.make_contract",
        "domain._evaluate"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A04",
        "E37-A05",
        "E37-I006"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-004",
      "name": "Sovereignty Boundary Enforcement",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "data residency controls",
        "zero-trust policy enforcement points"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "9-dimension boundary checked at the receiving gate",
      "design_around": "EASY",
      "implementation": [
        "core.crosses_boundary"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A17"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-005",
      "name": "Federated Governance Proof (state-root-bound local authorization)",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "OAuth DPoP / proof of possession",
        "Kubernetes admission + resourceVersion optimistic concurrency"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "authorization bound to the domain's current federation state root, so any material change kills outstanding authorizations at the gate",
      "design_around": "MODERATE",
      "implementation": [
        "domain._evaluate/_mcpgate/state_root"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A09",
        "E37-I025",
        "races"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW-MODERATE",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-006",
      "name": "Cross-Domain Continuous Integrity",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "remote attestation (RATS RFC 9334)",
        "SLSA provenance"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "attested runtime/model/tool/dependency digests compared per request",
      "design_around": "EASY",
      "implementation": [
        "domain._evaluate INTEGRITY_DRIFT"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A22",
        "E37-A23",
        "E37-A24"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-007",
      "name": "Byzantine Federation State",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "PBFT",
        "CT gossip"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "NOT a consensus protocol: bilateral agreement + local state; Byzantine behaviour handled by signature, chain and fork checks",
      "design_around": "N/A (weak candidate)",
      "implementation": [
        "negotiate.py",
        "core.detect_fork"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A30"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW-MODERATE",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "WEAK_CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-008",
      "name": "Federated Revocation without global authority",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "OCSP/CRL",
        "W3C VC status lists",
        "CT"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "issuer-signed event, receiving domain chooses response; no global revoker",
      "design_around": "EASY",
      "implementation": [
        "domain.apply_revocation"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A09",
        "MVP"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-009",
      "name": "Cross-Domain Dispute Governance",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "E30 govdomain disputes",
        "ODR systems"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "dispute state machine; any open dispute blocks; resolution is not approval",
      "design_around": "EASY",
      "implementation": [
        "core.advance_dispute"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A26"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-010",
      "name": "Federation Fork Detection",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "Certificate Transparency split-view detection",
        "Merkle consistency proofs"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "N-way per-seq comparison of (contract_hash, afo_hash) -> CONTESTED, gate blocks",
      "design_around": "EASY",
      "implementation": [
        "core.detect_fork",
        "domain.reconcile"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A12",
        "E37-A13",
        "fork vectors"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-011",
      "name": "Federated Collective Governance",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "E36 collective intersection",
        "RBAC group semantics"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "collective authority = intersection of members \u2229 contract",
      "design_around": "EASY",
      "implementation": [
        "core.federated_collective_authority"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A18"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "E37-IP-012",
      "name": "Cross-Domain MCP Enforcement",
      "baseline_prior_art": [
        "MCP authorization spec",
        "API gateways"
      ],
      "distinguishing_mechanism": "receiving domain's MCPGate re-verifies against current state root and hands a single-use token to a separate tool process",
      "design_around": "MODERATE",
      "implementation": [
        "domain._mcpgate",
        "tools/e30/boundary"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "E37-A28",
        "MVP"
      ],
      "evidence_status": "TESTED (self-assessed)",
      "prior_art_status": "RELATED_PRIOR_ART_EXISTS",
      "reproduction_difficulty": "LOW-MODERATE",
      "commercial_utility": "PLAUSIBLE, UNVALIDATED (no customer)",
      "ip_status": "CANDIDATE"
    }
  ],
  "overall": "Most E37 mechanisms are compositions of known techniques (federation metadata, capability attenuation, transcript hashing, CT-style fork detection). The most specific combination is E37-IP-005: authorizations bound to the receiving domain's current federation state root and re-checked at a process-boundary MCPGate. Its value depends on deployment evidence that does not yet exist."
}