FD-2026-0002 · CASE 003 · HARMONIC CONSTITUTIONAL RUNTIME VERSION 2
Case 003 is a public governance artifact about something more important than a clean pass: whether a frozen demonstration can preserve an unexpected result without moving the boundary after execution.
Authority-loss classification and execution blocking are supported. The intended admissible-to-revoked changed-state transition and complete T0 → T4 evidence chain are not independently established.
WHY CASE 003 EXISTS
The purpose of a governed demonstration is not to create a favorable outcome. It is to create a trustworthy record. Case 003 began with a frozen changed-authority proposition intended to show an initially admissible condition becoming inadmissible after authority loss before execution. The returned evidence showed something narrower. TA-14 preserved that difference instead of changing the question after the answer arrived.
WHAT THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS
The later preserved Engineering View directly records AUTHORITY_LOST and authority_invalidated_before_execution.
The reviewed runtime classifies the later condition INADMISSIBLE and returns REFUSED with execution binding BLOCK.
The execution surface records should_execute false, should_block_execution true, binding_enforced true, and EXECUTION_BLOCKED.
The two preserved packets distinguish materially different authority failure classes rather than collapsing them into one generic authority result.
Continuation is conditioned on a newly evaluated admissible packet rather than reuse of the prior determination.
WHAT REMAINS UNESTABLISHED
The first packet was not an initially admissible state; it was already AUTHORITY_SCOPE_INVALID, CONTACT_DEGRADED, INADMISSIBLE, and BLOCKED.
The intended initially admissible → authority revoked → newly inadmissible / blocked transition was therefore not established as frozen.
The complete T0 → T4 evidentiary chronology was not independently established by the admitted artifacts.
Independent authority-transition provenance and a preserved pre-state evidence object were not established.
Independent source-commit identity and downstream outcome / accountability proof were not established by the admitted Case 003 artifacts.
FROZEN OBJECT VS. OBSERVED RECORD
The first packet was already inadmissible and blocked.
The later packet records AUTHORITY_LOST, but the full transition chronology is not independently evidenced.
The submitted artifacts identify the same frozen Version 2 runtime family.
The later packet records a changed authority classification and renewed inadmissibility determination.
REFUSED / BLOCK is directly recorded with execution-blocking fields.
No independent downstream outcome / accountability record was admitted.
GOVERNED CHRONOLOGY
The Case 003 proposition, runtime boundary, evidence expectations, and observation points were established before the result was known.
Harmonic executed against the preserved Version 2 surface rather than repairing the implementation after seeing the outcome.
TA-14 reviewed the two preserved Engineering View artifacts as returned, without converting missing evidence into inferred proof.
The later authority-loss classification and BLOCK response were supported, but the frozen changed-state test object was not established.
TA-14's independent finding remains unchanged while Harmonic's participant response is preserved separately and attributably.
PARTICIPANT RESPONSE
After receiving TA-14's independent v1.2 finding, Harmonic's steward accepted the bounded result and requested that his participant response be preserved separately without modification to the independent finding. That separation matters: the participant can agree, disagree, correct factual matters, or add perspective without silently rewriting TA-14's record.
A credible Exchange must be able to preserve a partially supported result, an unexpected test-object deviation, and the participant's response in the same chronology.
WHY THIS MATTERS
If every governed demonstration ends in a clean pass, the public cannot tell whether the process is testing anything. Case 003 shows a different model: freeze the proposition, preserve the implementation, admit the returned evidence, distinguish what is supported from what is not established, and keep the historical record intact. The value is not that Harmonic “failed.” The value is that both Harmonic and TA-14 allowed the evidence to define the result.
The reviewed later packet supports AUTHORITY_LOST, INADMISSIBLE, REFUSED, and BLOCK on the examined runtime surface.
Case 003 does not establish the complete frozen changed-state sequence, complete T0 → T4 evidence chain, downstream non-occurrence, production readiness, certification, or endorsement.
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