Information Signals
Publications, reports, announcements, research, updates, external sources, or newly visible information that may deserve review and can be represented through attributable discovery metadata.
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Signals
Discovery Signals are Beacon-owned objects that document observations, events, changes, indicators, updates, or relationships identified through discovery and considered relevant for attention.
Beacon publishes Discovery Signals and supporting metadata while preserving source visibility, attribution, provenance, traceability, stable references, context, and institutional authority.
Jurisdiction Signals
Regulatory changes, policy updates, legislative activity, economic developments, or jurisdiction-specific events discovered through Atlas intelligence or attributable external sources.
Certification Signals
Discovery of certification-related information maintained by Certifier, including the existence or current condition of canonical Certification Packages. Certification is the primary Signal Type exercised by BEAC-2026-0001. Certifier retains certification authority.
Historical Signals
Events, discoveries, source updates, or milestones associated with Chronicle Entries or other historical context. Chronicle retains authority over its historical record.
Registry Signals
Creation, modification, correction, lifecycle, or relationship activity associated with SREG records. Registry retains authority over registered records and their lifecycle state.
Integrity Signals
Discovery of Integrity References, anchoring relationships, or integrity-related changes maintained by Anchor. Beacon may signal their relevance without assuming Anchor authority.
Relationship Signals
Discovery of meaningful relationships among Suite objects, Discovery Signals, workflows, versions, or external sources. Beacon owns the relationship as represented within its Discovery Signal without assuming authority over the connected objects.
Trust Signals
Discovery of bounded Trust Statements, attestation context, supporting references, or related governed evaluation context maintained by Attestor. Beacon does not determine universal trust by surfacing them.
Signal Lifecycle
Pre-object identification → Creation → Draft → Active → Superseded / Resolved / Withdrawn
Identification occurs before the canonical Discovery Signal exists. At Creation, Beacon assigns the permanent BEAC identifier and the signal enters Draft. Review and validation determine whether it is eligible to become Active. Superseded, Resolved, and Withdrawn preserve distinct terminal meanings rather than collapsing them into a generic follow-up state.
Publication is governed separately: Unpublished / Published.
Lifecycle state does not by itself determine publication state.
Lifecycle state does not by itself determine publication state.
Governed Signal Types
Beacon's initial governed Signal Type vocabulary is:
Information · Jurisdiction · Certification · Registry · Historical · Integrity · Trust · Relationship
These classifications describe the primary discovery character of a Beacon Discovery Signal. They do not describe the type or status of the referenced source object.
Signal Type ≠ Source Object Type ≠ Source Status
First Production Signal
BEAC-2026-0001 is Beacon's first canonical production Discovery Signal and the first production exercise of the Certification Signal Type.
BEAC-2026-0001
Active Operational Certification — Atlas Jurisdiction Record — El Salvador
Signal Type → Certification
Primary Source → Satoshium Certifier · SC-CERT-2026-0001
Lifecycle → Active
Publication → Published
Version → 1.0
Published → September 13, 2026
Active Operational Certification — Atlas Jurisdiction Record — El Salvador
Signal Type → Certification
Primary Source → Satoshium Certifier · SC-CERT-2026-0001
Lifecycle → Active
Publication → Published
Version → 1.0
Published → September 13, 2026
Certifier retains authority for the certification decision, class, lifecycle, and status. Beacon owns the Discovery Signal and its supporting Beacon-side metadata, provenance, lifecycle, publication state, and relationships.
Open BEAC-2026-0001 →Relationship to Discovery
Discovery identifies potentially relevant information. Beacon may publish a Discovery Signal that directs attention to a source or canonical object. Subsequent action remains with the appropriate Suite institution or human reviewer.
Workflow / Query → Discovery → Discovery Signal + Supporting Metadata → Referenced Source or Canonical Object
Current Institutional Status
Beacon Status → Operational · September 2026
Canonical Object → Discovery Signal
Discovery Metadata → Supporting Structure
First Production Signal → BEAC-2026-0001 · Active · Published · Version 1.0
Canonical Object → Discovery Signal
Discovery Metadata → Supporting Structure
First Production Signal → BEAC-2026-0001 · Active · Published · Version 1.0
The Discovery Signal remains Beacon's canonical object. Discovery Metadata is supporting structure associated with the signal and is not a second canonical object.
Signal Philosophy
A Discovery Signal is not certification, registration, historical authority, integrity evidence, or a Trust Statement. It does not inherit the authority of the object it references.
A Discovery Signal indicates that information may be relevant.
Reference does not transfer authority.
Reference does not transfer authority.
Beacon owns the Discovery Signals and supporting discovery metadata it publishes. The originating institution remains authoritative for any canonical object referenced by those signals.
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