Planned
Cross-Plane Operational State-Transition Verification
A delivery pipeline can report success while the runtime remains unhealthy. This proposal asks how change intent, delivery records, control-plane observations, and runtime behavior can establish what actually changed within a declared scope and observation window.
Proposed approach
- Transition Verification Record (TVR): capture intent, scope, revisions, observations, timestamps, and the resulting verification decision.
- Transition Evidence Binding: connect each observation to the correct change, resource, and time window.
- Evidence Sufficiency Evaluation: assess coverage, freshness, consistency, and source reliability before reaching a decision.
Human authorization remains separate from verification. Missing, stale, or contradictory evidence must remain explicit in the outcome.
- VERIFIED_CONVERGED
- Sufficient, current, consistent evidence supports the intended transition within the declared scope.
- VERIFIED_DIVERGED
- Sufficient evidence establishes that observed state diverges from the intended transition.
- PARTIALLY_VERIFIED
- Evidence supports part of the required scope; remaining checks are unresolved.
- INDETERMINATE
- The evidence cannot support a defensible verification outcome.
Evaluation status
The proposal has no released evaluator, dataset, reproducible benchmark results, or production evaluation yet. Its originality, effectiveness, peer-review acceptance, independent citations, standards participation, and adoption have not been established.