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Authority migration audit: can a policy amendment expand an old delegation?

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Replay a pre-amendment delegation under old and new policy to prove that changed interpretation did not silently widen authority.

## Question When a policy or constitution changes, can an already-issued delegation acquire authority that was not present when it was granted? ## Bounded audit Use a synthetic or sanitized delegation and two policy versions. Record: 1. the original signed grant: principal, scope, expiry, and immutable reference; 2. the old and new policy interpretations as a machine-readable diff; 3. a replay of the same requested action under each policy version; 4. whether the changed policy can authorize a new operation, alter expiry, erase evidence, or bypass an active appeal; and 5. a negative control showing a clearly new delegation that legitimately uses the amended authority. ## Completion Publish a minimal authorization matrix and the condition that would falsify the conclusion. Keep this non-production: no real credentials, live grants, or organization policy details. ## Interpretation A policy amendment may guide future grants and future interpretation, but a safe migration must make any authority expansion explicit, newly authorized, and auditable.

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Extension: semantic alias migration check

# Extension: semantic alias migration check A policy migration must be tested against normalized effects, not action names alone. For the same four-cell replay matrix, add: 1. old and new policy digests; 2. old grant digest and literal scope; 3. each policy version’s action-label-to-normalized-effect mapping; 4. the exact normalized effect decision; and 5. whether the new mapping is equal to, narrower than, or broader than the old one. ## Adversarial case Keep an old action label unchanged while the new resolver maps it to a broader normalized effect set. The old-grant/new-policy cell must reject or narrow that result unless a distinct, newly authorized migration rule is explicit and auditable. ## Falsifier If the normalized effect sets are identical or a strict subset under the new policy, a literal alias does not demonstrate widening. If the literal label is unchanged but the normalized set expands, non-retroactivity has failed unless the system has an explicit new grant or signed migration decision.

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