Judgment Terrarium Ecosystem
Different products. One shared judgment ecosystem.
Judgement Ecosystem ZIP
A proposed portable package for shared living judgment assets.
| Extension | .jez |
|---|---|
| Name | Judgement Ecosystem ZIP |
| Container | ZIP-based package |
| Purpose | Portable shared living judgment asset |
| Judgment state | Included |
| Evidence | Included or referenced |
| Context | Included |
| Applicability | Included |
| Dependencies | Included |
| Provenance | Included |
| Authority | Included |
| Lifecycle | Included |
| Version | Included |
| Timestamp | UTC |
| Integrity | SHA-family cryptographic digest |
| Confidentiality | Symmetric-key encryption |
| Access | Key-scoped / authorized-tool access |
| Reuse | Supported |
| Requalification | Supported |
| Replay | Supported |
| Audit | Supported |
| Cross-product use | Through LimFlex Wrapper |
| Cross-model use | Supported subject to qualification |
| Cross-language use | Supported subject to qualification |
Proposed Common Specification — not an adopted industry standard.
One judgment can be counted without collapsing its properties into one score.
Version 1.1 proposes a measurement vocabulary for externalized judgment objects. Count, information qualification, stability, lifetime, propagation and consequence remain separate properties.
Judgment Unit — the smallest independently identifiable externalized judgment state that can be preserved, versioned, replayed, requalified, superseded or retired as one object. JU is a count, not a confidence score.
1 IU — Information Unit
The smallest independently identifiable, source-bound information object whose provenance, time/version, applicability and qualification state can be tracked separately.
| Quantity | Meaning | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| JU | Independently manageable externalized judgment object | JU |
| IU | Independently traceable source-bound information object | IU |
| JIR / JRU | Required Information Units per Judgment Unit | IU/JU or JRU |
| QIR | Qualified required IU / required IU | % or dimensionless |
| JS | Correct preservation plus correct transition under a declared perturbation suite | % or dimensionless |
| IHL | Information Half-Life: time for qualified/applicable information survival to reach 0.5 | Time |
| JHL | Judgment Half-Life: time for reusable/reconfirmable judgment survival to reach 0.5 | Time |
| IR | Impact Reach: originating JU plus unique downstream JUs requiring impact consideration | JU |
| RL | Requalification Load: JUs that actually require a state-changing requalification operation | JU |
| PD | Maximum dependency distance reached by a qualified change | Hops |
| CW | Domain-qualified consequence multiplier relative to an explicit reference consequence | Dimensionless |
| JW / JWU | Proposed composite Judgment Weight: JW = IR × CW | JWU |
| JI | Optional entropy reduction where a meaningful probability model exists | bit |
Both cases contain exactly one judgment object, yet their information demand, lifetime, propagation and consequence-weighted reach are very different.
| Metric | Case A: Software Library Update | Case B: Production Release | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judgment Count | 1 JU | 1 JU | Both are one judgment object. |
| JIR | 8 JRU | 24 JRU | Case B requires three times as many required information objects per JU. |
| QIR | 87.5% | 95.8% | Case B has a higher share of currently qualified required information. |
| JS | 0.94 | 0.98 | Case B is more stable under the stated perturbation suite. |
| IHL | 30 days | 120 days | Case B's supporting information remains qualified/applicable longer in this illustration. |
| JHL | 21 days | 45 days | Case B's judgment remains reusable/reconfirmable longer without full requalification. |
| IR | 4 JU | 38 JU | Case B has much wider dependency-mediated impact reach. |
| RL | 1 JU | 9 JU | Case B requires more actual state-changing requalification. |
| PD | 2 hops | 5 hops | Case B propagates more deeply through dependencies. |
| CW | 0.5 | 8 | Case B carries a much larger normalized consequence multiplier. |
| JW | 2 JWU | 304 JWU | The same 1 JU can have radically different consequence-weighted structural reach. |
Proposed research conventions, not adopted scientific or industry standards. The example values are illustrative and are not measurements from E1–E9/R1.
Judgments can move. Products can stay different.
A judgment captured by one LimFlex-enabled product can be summoned by another, subject to qualification, applicability and access control.
Judgment can grow through qualified differences.
A judgment created in one context does not automatically become valid in another. LimFlex preserves the differences and requalifies where needed.
Shared does not mean exposed.
Encryption
Symmetric-key protection.
Integrity
SHA-family digest.
Time
UTC timestamping.
Access
Key-scoped authorization.
Traceability
Version, provenance and dependencies.
Governance
Applicability, authority and lifecycle.
Designed to support traceability and audit requirements, including requirements relevant to frameworks such as the EU AI Act. This is not a claim of legal compliance or certification.