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Interface domain: Identity

Status: EXPERIMENTAL capability domain — NOT a normative specification (docs/interface-model.md §2). Adding required semantics here is a proposal, not an edit.

Purpose. Who or what is acting, with continuity over time (docs/coordinate-system.md §2.1). Providers answer identity queries; consumers attach identity assertions to actions.

Wire format. None specified in v0.1.

Open questions. Whether identity and authority providers are separable in real deployments; how trajectory-based identity is exchanged without shipping raw history.

Formalization trigger. Two independent projects declaring provides:identity with incompatible assertion shapes.