Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Make outward representation intent explicit without treating the declaration as access control, publication, or automatic exposure of private material.
- Meaningful outcome
- A versioned outward-intent declaration is active, disabled, superseded, or rejected for one Role.
- Boundaries — includes
- Role identity, intended exposure class, audience intent, outward framing, effective time, owner decision, status, and version.
- Boundaries — excludes
- access-control enforcement, audience membership, publication, outbound action authority, content copying, and visibility changes to private source objects.
- Terms and concepts
outward intent describes the intended representation class; it does not itself make any content visible.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Set or revise outward intent
- Actor
- The owner or an explicitly authorized governance interface.
- Command / intent
- Set, disable, or revise the outward intent for one Role.
- Current state
- An active Role definition, current outward-intent version, supported exposure classes, and owner authority exist.
- Policies / invariants
- Private-only is the safe default; mutually exclusive intent states are explicit; changing intent does not expose private content; access, discovery, rights, publication, and outbound-action authority remain separately governed.
- Transition
- Validate the Role and requested intent, record owner authorization and framing, and activate or reject a new version.
- Result
- An active, disabled, rejected, or superseded outward-intent declaration.
- Events / effects
- May make separately prepared outward representations eligible for later access or publication decisions.
- Unknowns
- Supported audience classes and review cadence vary by implementation and jurisdiction.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Enabling outward intent must never expose existing private Role-linked information.
- An outward-intent declaration is not a publication command or an access grant.
Recommended defaults
- New Roles begin private-only with no outward representation eligibility.
Unknown / unresolved
- How outward intent interacts with organization, relationship, and jurisdictional policy requires a sharing profile.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| A Role's outward intent is explicit, private-first, and separate from access control, publication, and private-content exposure. | rule/invariant | sourced | D16. |