/reference-graph
Reference graph
A reference here is not a hyperlink you trust. It is an observation bound to exact captured bytes and a digest that anyone possessing those bytes can independently recompute. Every reference resolves through the same governed model: external references require capture; internal references require immutable edition-and-digest resolution against the admitted corpus.
Release gate.The unqualified claim “every citation leaves a receipt” is held until the internal resolution-receipt profile is ratified and implemented. Today internal edges still carry a source_capture receipt — a named defect, corrected downstream, not here. What is true now: every external citation attempt leaves a receipt, and every internal citation is version-bound and independently inspectable.
The internal citation graph
Ten admitted records, drawn from their own cross-references. A solid edge resolves to an admitted target at the exact edition and digest the citing record declared. A dashed edge names a target the corpus cites but has not admitted yet — structured incompleteness the graph accounts for, not a broken link it hides. CP-SIG-24 is already a hub: four entries cite it. Select any records to turn them into the active measurement set, then compare their graph structure, shared words, repeated terms, and dates.
Include or remove records; every comparison recomputes from that set.
Connections are declared graph structure. Words, terms, and dates are deterministic projections of exact page-model text; they remain comparison aids, not graph authority.
The pin outlives the page
CP-15 cites CP-SIG-24 at edition 3, digest H3. If CP-SIG-24 moves to edition 4 tomorrow, ordinary linking silently changes what the citation appears to mean. Here CP-15 still means H3, and the edge says so. History lives in the edge, not only in page revisions.
An edge, inspected
The same governed edge exposes the verification appropriate to its target class. An external target is captured; an internal governed target is checked against its pinned edition and digest in the admitted pool. Neither borrows the other’s vocabulary.
- Capture
- VERIFIED · digest recomputed
- Source identity
- NOT EVALUATED
- Claim support
- NOT EVALUATED
- Truth
- NOT ASSERTED
- Bound-version digest
- MATCHED against admitted bytes
- Target
- PRESENT in admitted pool
- Resolution receipt
- PENDING dedicated profile
- Claim support
- NOT EVALUATED
- Truth
- NOT ASSERTED
No resolution verdict is rendered anywhere yet: that finding is owed to a dedicated resolution-receipt profile that has not landed. Pool presence and a matched bound-version digest are byte-checkable today; the resolution act is not.
What the receipt proves, and what it refuses to
The honesty of the graph is in the separation. Capture and pool comparison are provable from bytes; truth is not, and the receipt says so in its own body.
Recomputed from held bytes
- ✓ Capture digest (external) and bound-version digest (internal) recompute to the declared value.
- ✓ External capture receipts pass the pinned SRS schema and the
srs.editorial.source_capture.v0.1profile in arcs-verify. - ✓ Tamper evidence: flip one stored byte and the verdict flips to FAIL.
- ✓ External capture receipts retain
hash_only; raw bytes never enter the receipt.
Explicitly not evaluated
- — Article truth: never asserted.
- — Claim support: whether the source backs the citing sentence is not judged.
- — Source identity: who stands behind the target is left open.
- — Signature: unsigned, proposed-local; real signing awaits a ratified issuer key.
External captures, one by one
A sample of referenced web sources, each fetched under bounded conditions and bound to a digest. Failures are recorded by finding, not lumped as “dead.”
External captures seed the atlas; the growth loop is internal. Every entry that cites another mints an inspectable, version-bound edge, and the expensive open-web cost is paid once per artifact while everything above it compounds. Verified locally against arcs-verify srs.editorial.source_capture.v0.1 for external captures; internal resolution-receipt conformance is pending ratification. Receipts unsigned, proposed-local; no claim of article truth, claim support, or source identity is made here.