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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.