Lexicon · term
The readiness-authorization split
Also called readiness is not authorization.
Readiness is a property of an artifact, established by verification. Authorization is a decision about a relationship, made by a person about a recipient and a moment. A system that derives the second from the first has converted completing work into consenting to release it, and has deleted the point at which anyone could decline. The two are therefore kept apart by construction, and the strongest form of the separation is not a confirmation step but a pipeline with no send path at all, since a prompt is a behavioral guard in front of a capability that exists and an absent path has nothing to fail.