Evidence Standing Envelope: Claim Standing Under Interval Evidence in Consequence-Bearing AI Systems

Abstract

This release is a separate public doctrinal specification with an accompanying commercial companion note within the authored Applicability Boundary Doctrine. It should be read alongside the canonical baseline publication of the Applicability Boundary Doctrine, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19425317, the doctrinal extension, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19443895, the separate doctrinal specification on epistemic applicability, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19447536, the separate doctrinal specification on reality verification, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19457414, the separate doctrinal specification on approval-execution separation, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19462291, the separate doctrinal specification on substrate integrity, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19463230, the separate doctrinal specification on human-institutional responsibility, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19476910, the separate doctrinal specification on decorative governance, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19478004, the separate doctrinal evaluation module on vendor claim admissibility, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19487979, the separate doctrinal evaluation module on memory, context, delegation, and manual boundary integrity, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19502406, the separate doctrinal technical specification on formal conditions of standing and re-sanctioning, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19599888, the separate doctrinal evaluation module on update-rule admissibility and standing preservation, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19616417, the separate doctrinal technical specification on irreversibility posture and the boundary of governance automation, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19636475, the separate doctrinal technical specification on deterministic liability, pressure isolation, and mission invalidation, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19655615, and the commercial companion note on deterministic liability and insurer readability, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19657625. The primary publication introduces the Evidence Standing Envelope as the bounded evidentiary standing region within which available evidence may support a claim, preserve standing, guide tempo, authorize continuation, or commit consequence. The central doctrinal claim is that a deterministic claim made from interval-censored or unresolved evidence is not merely uncertain; it is standing-defective for the asserted consequence-bearing use. The publication clarifies that unresolved evidence does not automatically require paralysis. It requires consequence-classed continuation in a tempo, scope, autonomy level, reversibility class, and human-intervention mode supported by the current Evidence Standing Envelope. Tempo-Admissible Continuation does not restore deterministic standing; it only defines what limited forms of continuation remain admissible while deterministic standing is absent. The specification defines Evidence Standing Envelope, Interval Admissibility, Knowledge Boundary, BE-K Knowledge Boundary Event, Tempo-Admissible Continuation, Variable Tempo Doctrine, Pre-Irreversibility Play Window, Evidence Narrowing, Unavoidable-Loss Conditions, evidence-standing falsifiers, minimum public record categories, and insurer-readable evidence posture. The accompanying Commercial Companion Note 02 translates the same doctrine primitive into insurer-readable, procurement-readable, board-readable, and counsel-readable evidence posture. It identifies public evidence record categories, procurement and board challenge questions, commercial red flags, and a private artifact boundary without disclosing the private evidence-scoring method, machine-readable schema library, insurer-facing artifact workflow, implementation architecture, procurement scoring method, certification packaging, or domain-specific rollout materials. This release is domain-neutral and consequence-class based. It is relevant to consequence-bearing AI, high-consequence AI, clinical AI, AI/ML-enabled medical devices, banking and model risk, insurance, cybersecurity operations, critical infrastructure, aviation, autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial automation, public sect