WHAT REMAINS — Final Revision
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This file tracks the status of all identified gaps and remaining
work after the gap-closure revision.

All seven gaps from the external review have been addressed. This file
documents their status and any residual items.


GAP CLOSURE STATUS
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1. Constitutional governance layer       CLOSED
   OE-0011 (Amendment) now defines a two-tier amendment process.
   Technical content follows the standard workflow.
   Governance content (Laws, Editorial Principles, Status Lifecycle)
   requires: (a) standard editorial gate, (b) no precision reduction,
   (c) two independent reviewers, (d) no contradiction with Accepted
   documents. OE-0000 references this. The "Constitutional Gap"
   acknowledgment has been removed — the gap is filled.

2. "Bedrock" and "Evolution" term collisions  CLOSED
   "Evolution" renamed to "Amendment" — it describes a formal change
   process, which is the standard term in standards bodies. File
   renamed from oe-0011-evolution.md to oe-0011-amendment.md. All
   cross-references updated.
   "Bedrock" retains its name with two mitigations: (a) OE-0001 now
   defines it precisely and includes a Term Collision Note
   acknowledging the geotechnical meaning and providing "reality
   basis" as an unambiguous synonym. (b) OE-0002 lists it as
   "Bedrock (reality basis)." This is how standards handle term
   collision — define the term of art and note the collision.

3. Conformance testing criteria           CLOSED
   OE-0000 now defines ten testable conformance criteria:
   (1) Field Completeness, (2) Decision Specificity,
   (3) Observation Traceability, (4) Constraint Bounding,
   (5) Alternatives Plural, (6) Verification Against Reality,
   (7) Reasoning References Alternatives, (8) Lineage Traceability,
   (9) Assumption Awareness, (10) No Contradiction. Three compliance
   levels are defined: compliant, compliant-with-resolution-needed,
   non-compliant.

4. Empirical claims reframed            CLOSED
   OE-0000 now contains a "Testable Hypotheses" section with three
   formal hypotheses: (1) Context Preservation — OE-compliant
   records reduce re-derivation time. (2) Translation — translated
   principles demonstrate equal or greater durability. (3) Thread
   Integrity — conformance-compliant records enable reasoning
   reconstruction. All are stated as testable predictions requiring
   empirical validation, not as proven assertions.

5. Historical citations                  CLOSED
   Antikythera example now cites:
   - Freeth, T. et al. (2021). *Scientific Reports*, 11, 5823.
   - de Solla Price, D. (1974). *Transactions of the American
     Philosophical Society*, 64(7).

6. Philosophical realism objection        CLOSED
   OE-0001 Bedrock section now includes a "Methodological
   Commitment" subsection: the standard requires testing models
   against observable outcomes (methodological) but does not
   require practitioners to hold a specific philosophical position
   about the nature of reality (ontological). Compatible with
   both realism and pragmatism.

7. Contemporary examples                 CLOSED
   Two new example files added:
   - examples/software-auth-context.md (database schema selection,
     software engineering)
   - examples/biomedical-implant-context.md (hip implant material
     selection, biomedical engineering)
   Both demonstrate the context record structure (OE-0003) with
   fully populated fields in a contemporary engineering discipline.


RESIDUAL ITEMS (Not Gaps — Future Phase Work)
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These are not specification defects. They are implementation-phase
work that cannot be completed during the Bedrock Phase.

1. Implementation Phase tooling
   website/, implementations/, schemas/, tools/ remain empty
   structural placeholders.

2. Empirical hypothesis testing
   The three hypotheses in OE-0000 require real-world testing with
   practitioners. This is the first task of the Implementation
   Phase.

3. "Bedrock" term collision — full decision
   The collision is documented and mitigated. The project may
   ultimately choose to fully rename to "reality basis." This is
   a project decision, not a specification defect.

4. Additional discipline-specific examples           PARTIALLY ADDRESSED
   The examples/ directory now contains 18 examples across 9
   engineering disciplines (civil, software, biomedical, chemical,
   aerospace, environmental, manufacturing, electrical, mechanical)
   and 9 conceptual areas (thread integrity, structure carries
   meaning, verification loop, stewardship, inheritance, spiral
   re-evaluation, observation first, survey, pre-discipline principle).
   Remaining opportunity: practitioners in specific domains may add
   further discipline-specific examples during the Community Phase
   that reflect their domain's unique constraint patterns.

5. Context record interchange format
   The minimum required fields are defined. A machine-readable
   schema (JSON, YAML, or other) for context record interchange
   will be defined during the Implementation Phase.

6. Milestone Statement
   Process metadata about revision milestones belongs in project
   records, not in the standard. No specification content references
   any project milestone name.