# Continuity Layering **Domain:** Deep Time / Continuity Governance / Institutional Change **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis ## Definition **Continuity Layering** is the addition of continuity-specific rights, duties, service classes, funding rules, or identity logic onto pre-existing institutions. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It is the likely path by which continuity law enters mature systems without replacing them. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Digital identity, estate planning, public utilities, archives, insurance, and succession already contain extensible institutional layers. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis A continuity layer can transform the practical meaning of the underlying system. ## Evidentiary Boundary Layering must preserve evidentiary distinctions between current and proposed functions. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Policy Layering|Policy Layering]] · [[wiki/Continuity Conversion|Continuity Conversion]] · [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->