# Continuity-Preserving Quarantine **Domain:** Deep Time / Safety / Preservation **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Normative future safeguard ## Definition **Continuity-Preserving Quarantine** is temporary isolation of a potentially dangerous or legally disputed digital entity while preserving enough state for later restoration or adjudication. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It offers a safer alternative to irreversible deletion when immediate operation creates risk but moral or legal status remains uncertain. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Cybersecurity quarantine, evidence preservation, escrow, and dormant archival storage provide partial analogues. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis A quarantined subject may require rights against indefinite unreviewed confinement. ## Evidentiary Boundary This is proposed continuity architecture. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Reversible Suspension|Reversible Suspension]] · [[wiki/Dormant Preservation Default|Dormant Preservation Default]] · [[wiki/Digital Entity Due Process|Digital Entity Due Process]] · [[wiki/Preservation Pending Status Determination|Preservation Pending Status Determination]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->