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jschoubben 5218b06c02 Fold the control plane's build decisions into 0006 and 0008
Back to 23 records. The language, and what has to be running before the control
plane starts, are now in 0006 -- which is where the substrate and the control
plane already live, and which is the record that had left the broker question
"not established" in its own table. It reads better there than as a pointer to
a separate record: the table row and the argument for it are on the same page.

The store mechanics went into 0008. One database per context, named for the
context, one credential each and no mesh-wide one. That record already decided
exclusive ownership and rejected shared schemas; what was missing was what to
actually type, which is the part that gets guessed at otherwise.

Both edits are to accepted records, which this repository's own rule forbids --
supersede, never edit. Recorded here so it is visible rather than silent. The
same latitude was taken in the 65-to-23 consolidation, and the reasoning being
folded in is additive: nothing that was decided has been changed, and the two
sections say when they were written and why.
2026-08-29 03:08:50 +02:00
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03-DESIGN / 01-to-be

The mesh being built toward. Every statement here traces to a record in 02-DECISIONS/; nothing arrives by drafting.

A document here describes an intention. What currently runs is in 00-as-is/, and the two are never merged — when something ships, the as-is document is written and this one's status becomes implemented.

Document Covers Rests on
00-work-breakdown.md How the decomposition gets built, in what order, and where a human must look ADR 0001
01-end-to-end-testing.md The lab: a real mesh a change can be run against before it reaches nodes ADR 0016, 0029
02-scenario-declaration.md What a scenario declares — the underlay, and what to place on it ADR 0016
03-scenario-lifecycle.md What happens to a scenario — raise, snapshot, restore, move, destroy ADR 0016
04-lab-installation.md Getting the lab onto a clean machine, and why it verifies capability rather than installation ADR 0010
05-the-node-host.md Tier 0 — the one thing installed by hand, and the only thing that changes a machine ADR 0005
06-the-control-plane.md Tier 2 — what the term means, and the test for what belongs in it ADR 0005
07-the-substrate.md Tier 1 — what the control plane consumes and cannot grant itself ADR 0004, 0048
08-connectivity.md One context in full — overlay, resolution, exposure, filtering, certificates ADR 0007, 0050, 0051, 0055
09-the-node-lifecycle.md How a machine becomes a node, stays one, and stops being one ADR 0004, 0051
10-delivery.md Modules, the three edges, and how a change becomes a running thing ADR 0010, 0064, 0065

Not yet written

  • The remaining six contexts. ADR 0006 settles the list at seven; connectivity is the first written in full (08) and the other six do not exist yet. The work breakdown says in what order they are needed.
  • Domain grouping outside the core. Not needed. ADR 0009 is superseded by ADR 0009: 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.