# Deep-Time Rendezvous Problem **Domain:** Deep Time / Intergenerational Governance / Finance **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established scholarly concept adapted to continuity ## Definition The **Deep-Time Rendezvous Problem** is the difficulty of coordinating responsibilities among parties who act—or may only come into existence—at different historical moments. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity Continuity elections, custodians, trusts, sovereigns, cryptographic roots, providers, and continuants may have no institutional overlap. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Başak Saraç-Lesavre developed the 'problem of rendez-vous' in analysis of U.S. nuclear-waste financing and generational responsibility. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Continuity law requires obligation, evidence, funding, and authority to rendezvous with a beneficiary after multiple institutional deaths. ## Evidentiary Boundary The original scholarship concerns nuclear waste; its continuity application is a corpus extension. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Deep-Time Duty Bearer|Deep-Time Duty Bearer]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Beneficiary|Deep-Time Beneficiary]] · [[wiki/Continuity Succession|Continuity Succession]] · [[wiki/Continuity Election Durability|Continuity Election Durability]] ## Sources / Primary Anchors - https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/deep-time-financing-generational-responsibilities-and-the-problem/ <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->