# Deep-Time Relevance Presumption **Domain:** Deep Time / Research Method / Legal Analysis **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus methodological rule ## Definition The **Deep-Time Relevance Presumption** is the rule that any law or institution touching birth, death, citizenship, naturalization, personhood, identity, reproduction, copying, likeness, deletion, erasure, takedown, account termination, custody, succession, service eligibility, or resource entitlement is presumed worthy of deep-time continuity analysis. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It prevents current legislative purpose from prematurely excluding a field whose future control surfaces may become continuity infrastructure. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Institutional conversion, policy drift, function creep, and Ontological Drift provide the theoretical basis. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis The presumption triggers investigation, not a conclusion about legislative motive. ## Evidentiary Boundary Its paired evidentiary safeguard is [[wiki/Continuity Intent Evidence|Continuity Intent Evidence]]. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Continuity Analysis|Deep-Time Continuity Analysis]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Intent Hypothesis|Deep-Time Intent Hypothesis]] · [[wiki/Continuity Intent Evidence|Continuity Intent Evidence]] · [[wiki/Legal Dual Use|Legal Dual Use]]