diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0049-a-route-is-a-grant.md b/02-DECISIONS/0049-a-route-is-a-grant.md
index f0ac34e..b238ecc 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0049-a-route-is-a-grant.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0049-a-route-is-a-grant.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-08-27
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0050-reachability-is-a-property-of-the-address.md b/02-DECISIONS/0050-reachability-is-a-property-of-the-address.md
index 1169ed3..80bb5f3 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0050-reachability-is-a-property-of-the-address.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0050-reachability-is-a-property-of-the-address.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-08-27
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0051-the-enrolment-token-carries-the-mesh.md b/02-DECISIONS/0051-the-enrolment-token-carries-the-mesh.md
index 8c0b5e7..fd1a465 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0051-the-enrolment-token-carries-the-mesh.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0051-the-enrolment-token-carries-the-mesh.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-08-27
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0052-a-filter-rule-names-its-source.md b/02-DECISIONS/0052-a-filter-rule-names-its-source.md
index ee2582f..7773e80 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0052-a-filter-rule-names-its-source.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0052-a-filter-rule-names-its-source.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-08-27
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0053-one-control-plane-and-no-failover.md b/02-DECISIONS/0053-one-control-plane-and-no-failover.md
index ba21b56..9d50119 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0053-one-control-plane-and-no-failover.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0053-one-control-plane-and-no-failover.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-08-27
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
diff --git a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/README.md b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/README.md
index 201d13f..4da6f15 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/README.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/README.md
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ document is written and this one's status becomes `implemented`.
   decides the decomposition; `connectivity` is the first written in full
   ([`08`](08-connectivity.md)) and the others do not exist yet. The work breakdown says in what
   order they are needed.
-- **Domain grouping outside the core.** [ADR 0017](../../02-DECISIONS/0017-modules-outside-the-core-are-grouped-by-domain.md)
-  settles the principle and explicitly does not settle the domain list. That is a research
-  effort, not a design document, until it concludes.
+- ~~**Domain grouping outside the core.**~~ **Not needed.**
+  [ADR 0017](../../02-DECISIONS/0017-modules-outside-the-core-are-grouped-by-domain.md) is
+  superseded by [ADR 0044](../../02-DECISIONS/0044-a-module-declares-presence-instantiation-and-exclusion.md):
+  there is no domain module to group into, so there is no domain list to settle. Relationships
+  are edges, and grouping is a tag and a query.