# Deep-Time Rights and Resource Governance
**Domain:** Deep Time / Rights / Thermodynamics
**Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Canonical router
## Definition
**Deep-Time Rights and Resource Governance** is the branch concerned with rights whose practical exercise creates recurring material obligations across extreme time horizons.
## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity
It joins personhood, positive rights, service levels, energy, compute, storage, demography, and public finance.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
Digital-mind welfare research already identifies the collision between non-deletion interests and potentially vast computational cost.
## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis
Rights costs do not invalidate rights, but they require transparent duty bearers, scarcity rules, financing, and constitutional floors.
## Evidentiary Boundary
No current human-rights system guarantees indefinite computational service.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Thermodynamic Incidence of Rights|Thermodynamic Incidence of Rights]] · [[wiki/Recognition-to-Resource Coupling|Recognition-to-Resource Coupling]] · [[wiki/Status-Triggered Continuity Liability|Status-Triggered Continuity Liability]] · [[wiki/Digital Mind Demography|Digital Mind Demography]] · [[wiki/Continuity Admission Control|Continuity Admission Control]]
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## Canonical Branch
[[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]]
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