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RFC-023: ENFORCE Broadcast — Ephemeral Distributed Enforcement for Governed Autonomy — 2. Motivation

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2. Motivation

Traditional governance assumes a control plane can issue instructions and systems will receive them reliably.

Control Plane → Actor → Action → Telemetry → Control Plane

Autonomous systems may not operate under that assumption.

They may operate where:

network connectivity is degraded
radio communication is jammed
GPS is unreliable
operators are delayed
systems are moving fast
multiple autonomous actors are coordinating
local hazards emerge faster than central command can react
adversaries attempt deception
mission state changes rapidly

If one actor receives an updated enforcement state but others do not, the system can enter split-brain governance.

Example:

Drone A receives: Zone E is now prohibited.
Drone B does not receive the update.
Robot C continues entering Zone E.
Cyborg Responder D assumes the area is clear.
Control Plane assumes all units received the update.

This is not only a communication failure. It is a governance coherence failure.

AIGP ENFORCE Broadcast prevents this by making enforcement state portable, signed, scoped, expiring, rebroadcastable, and D-DNA recorded.

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