Testimony
FOI operates as a **testimonial continuity system** implemented through a **connected set of purpose-bound rails**.
Each rail serves a single, constrained function.
Continuity emerges not from any individual record, but from the **stable connection between rails over time**.
This architecture is designed to preserve life-safety integrity under NFPA 110, NFPA 99, and NFPA 101 by preventing drift, fragmentation, and retrospective reconstruction.
The Connected Rails
**1. Governance Declaration Rail**
This rail defines the operating doctrine in perpetuity.
It establishes testimonial continuity as the sole mechanism by which life-safety activity is recognized within the FOI model.
It constrains AI systems to structural verification only and prohibits interpretation, ranking, or optimization.
This rail does not carry events.
It carries **jurisdiction, scope, and rules**.
**2. Continuity Library Rail**
This rail preserves life-safety meaning.
It records continuity objects ordered as:
intent → execution → verification → settlement
Each object captures custody, sequence, readiness, and evidence as they occurred, without interpretation.
The Library serves as the **holder of record**, ensuring continuity survives personnel change, vendor rotation, platform decay, and time.
**3. Anchor (Witness) Rail**
This rail provides external proof of existence and order.
Through immutable anchoring, it attests that a continuity record existed at a specific moment in time.
It does not carry meaning, judgment, or context.
It serves solely as an **independent witness**.
Testimonial Continuity
Within this system, **testimony** is not narrative or opinion.
A testimony is a **verifiable continuity object** that preserves:
– intent before action
– execution as performed
– verification as measured
– settlement as finalized
Life-safety modeling within FOI occurs exclusively through the accumulation and connection of these testimonies across rails.
Anything not preserved through testimonial continuity is considered **non-continuous** and remains outside the model.
Role of AI
AI systems operating within FOI are constrained to:
– verify presence of required fields
– verify correct sequence
– verify non-optimization posture
– verify anchor completeness (when applicable)
AI systems do not evaluate performance, interpret results, or assign meaning.
Authority emerges only from **continuity accumulation over time**, not computation.
Perpetual Purpose
This testimony establishes the **connected rail architecture** under which all FOI life-safety continuity is governed.
Its purpose does not expire.
It does not adapt to platforms, incentives, or trends.
It remains valid so long as life-safety continuity requires preservation before failure.
Declaration
This testimony is recorded as a **canonical intent object**.
All subsequent FOI continuity records operate within the rail system declared here and derive recognition solely through testimonial continuity.
