diff --git a/go/provisions/provisions.go b/go/provisions/provisions.go
index c7ee20d..3889dc3 100644
--- a/go/provisions/provisions.go
+++ b/go/provisions/provisions.go
@@ -264,12 +264,12 @@ func Encode(p Provision) ([]byte, error) {
 	return json.Marshal(p)
 }
 
-// Decode reads a key's value strictly: a field the layout does not name is refused, so no value, sealed or not, rides in
-// a provision (clause 1, ADR 0201 §13).
+// Decode reads a key's value. **A field the layout does not name is read past and dropped** (issue 1126 review 1): a
+// reader on an older mesh-sdk must not refuse a key a newer writer adds a field to. No value rides in a provision all
+// the same (clause 1, ADR 0201 §13): Encode writes the layout alone, so what a reader does not know is never kept.
 func Decode(data []byte) (Provision, error) {
 	var p Provision
 	dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(data))
-	dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
 	if err := dec.Decode(&p); err != nil {
 		return Provision{}, fmt.Errorf("provisions: a provision is not readable: %w", err)
 	}
diff --git a/go/provisions/provisions_test.go b/go/provisions/provisions_test.go
index a5c49ad..f9e5ab8 100644
--- a/go/provisions/provisions_test.go
+++ b/go/provisions/provisions_test.go
@@ -56,10 +56,16 @@ func TestAProvisionIsAReferenceUnderItsConsumersKey(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%s: %s parses as %s %s %s %s, %v", c.name, key, node, consumer, provision, local, err)
 		}
 	}
-	// A value never rides in a provision: a field the layout does not name is refused.
-	if _, err := Decode([]byte(`{"v":1,"provision":"p","consumer":{"module":"c","node":"n"},"provider":{"module":"p","node":"n"},` +
-		`"state":"provided","at":"2026-10-29T22:00:00Z","password":"hunter2"}`)); err == nil {
-		t.Error("a provision carrying a password was read")
+	// A field a later layout adds is read past, never kept (issue 1126 review 1: a reader on an older mesh-sdk must not
+	// refuse a key a newer writer adds a field to). A value still never rides in a provision: Encode writes the layout
+	// alone, so what a reader does not know is dropped, and encoding it again carries none of it.
+	later, err := Decode([]byte(`{"v":1,"provision":"p","consumer":{"module":"c","node":"n"},"provider":{"module":"p","node":"n"},` +
+		`"state":"provided","at":"2026-10-29T22:00:00Z","a-later-field":{"x":1},"password":"hunter2"}`))
+	if err != nil || later.Provision != "p" || later.State != Provided {
+		t.Errorf("a provision with a field of a later layout: %+v, %v", later, err)
+	}
+	if again, _ := Encode(later); strings.Contains(string(again), "hunter2") || strings.Contains(string(again), "a-later-field") {
+		t.Errorf("a field the layout does not name was kept: %s", again)
 	}
 	plan := Plan{Node: "novox", Module: "restic", Plan: catalogue.Plan{}}
 	raw, err := EncodePlan(plan)