# Continuity Succession **Domain:** Continuity / Institutional Succession / Custody **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in custody, receivership, records-transfer, and public-stewardship analogues ## Definition **Continuity Succession** is the transfer of authority, records, keys, obligations, funding, and review capacity from one continuity institution or custodian to a legitimate successor without losing the protected subject or changing the governing election by accident. ## Minimum Transfer Package A valid succession must preserve the identity and provenance chain, current election, service obligations, beneficiary record, audit history, financial assurance, technical dependencies, appeal rights, and the authority by which the successor acts. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Provider mortality is inevitable on sufficiently long horizons. Succession therefore cannot be an emergency improvisation: it must be testable, funded, jurisdictionally portable, and capable of transferring both data and meaning. ## Evidentiary Boundary Receivership, public-record transfer, nuclear stewardship, and successor-custodian mechanisms are structural precedents. They do not establish an existing legal regime for computational persons. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] · [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] · [[wiki/Successor Custodian|Successor Custodian]] · [[wiki/Orderly Transfer|Orderly Transfer]] · [[wiki/Cryptographic Succession|Cryptographic Succession]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election Durability|Continuity Election Durability]]