AEF Changelog

Superseded versions stay in this directory at their own paths. Nothing is rewritten in place.

v0.2, 11 August 2026#

• Renamed to the Attested Execution Framework (AEF). The framework and its artifact are now separate nouns: AEF is the framework, an attested execution record (aer) is the thing a run produces. v0.1 used one name for both, which left no word for the doctrine about sufficiency, custody, and signature meaning.
• Adopted numbered documents in blocks, starting with this charter as AEF 1000, and named eight documents that are committed but unwritten. A numbered document is a commitment; an unnumbered one is an intention.
• Rewrote principle 2. v0.1 demanded verification by someone who trusts neither the operator nor the producing system, which demands zero trust and is unsatisfiable, since every chain terminates in a key, a root of trust, a time source, a compiler, or silicon. It now requires independence from the operator plus a declared, external, minimal trust base.
• Merged principles 3 and 5 into one. v0.1 asserted that absence of a record is a finding without supplying a boundary, which made it untestable, and then supplied the boundary one entry later without acknowledging the dependency. Six principles remain.
• Rebuilt section 2's premise. v0.1 predicted that someone would demand proof and defended it nowhere. v0.2 argues from three documented precedents where consequential automated work acquired an evidence requirement after a failure, and states the inference as an inference.
• Added an adversary subsection under Scope, naming which attacks an aer survives and which it does not. An evidence standard without a threat model was the largest hole in v0.1.
• Added section 11, Governance: author versus editor, transfer of the editor seat, stewardship intent, an eighteen-month dormancy clause, the fork right stated affirmatively, and the employer non-involvement statement moved here from section 1.
• Cut two repetitions: the publication cadence appeared in both sections 1 and 9, and the certification disclaimer appeared in both sections 8 and 11.

v0.1, 11 August 2026#

• First public draft, published as Assay. Twelve sections, seven principles, no threat model, no governance section, no numbered series.
• Earlier working name during drafting: AER, Attested Execution Record.