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hq/04-ISSUES
jschoubben 5cac268457 Two checks were wrong about where a seat is judged
Correcting design 26 to match what the merged code does, and fixing issue 112's
status, which used a word the vocabulary does not have.

A claim on a seat the manifest does not itself declare is refused at registration
rather than by the parser. A module may hold a seat another module declared —
that is why ADR 0126 has a caller name the seat and not its provider — so whether
the name exists is a fact about the whole catalogue.

And a declared seat may promise nothing. That is a marker seat, and most
node-scoped seats are markers: which module is this machine's packet filter. ADR
0126's "a declared seat carries a protocol" says what a holder must satisfy, not
that every seat offers something.

`records.py` still fails on ADR 0120 resting on a proposed ADR 0112, which is not
this branch's and not mine to decide.
2026-09-27 18:57:49 +02:00
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04-ISSUES

The front door for "something is wrong" at the level of the mesh's design or governance. Diagnosis happens here, where the whole mesh is in view; the fix lands in the owning code repository.

What belongs here

Belongs here Belongs in the knowledge base
The design permits a failure to be silent How to fix one occurrence of it
A documented rule is enforced by nothing A command that works around it
A stated invariant is false in practice A node-specific quirk
The owner is unknown and finding it needs the whole mesh in view Symptom → fix, once the answer is known

The knowledge base already holds the operational record and is indexed on symptoms. This folder is not a second copy of it. An issue here is a question HQ must answer; an entry there is an incident someone must clear. An issue whose answer is a general lesson belongs in both.

Structure

NNN-short-name/
  00-report.md      the symptom as observed, with the evidence; status in frontmatter
  01-diagnosis.md   the investigation trail, dated, including what was ruled out

Frontmatter, on 00-report.md

---
status: open | diagnosing | located | resolved | wontfix
opened: YYYY-MM-DD
located-in: []       # owning repo(s) or module(s), filled by diagnosis
fixed-by:            # pull request or commit reference, filled at resolution
amended-design:      # design doc path, when the root cause was a design gap
---

Rules

  • Anyone may open an issue. No localisation is required to report one.
  • The full flow is playbook 00-META/process/03-issues.md.
  • Closed issues are never deleted — they are the mesh's symptom-to-component memory.
  • wontfix is legitimate and requires a sentence saying why.