# Digital Identity Succession **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Identity / Succession **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Proposed continuity architecture with existing identity/estate analogues ## Definition **Digital Identity Succession** is the controlled transition of authority, credentials, provenance, and recognized identity from a biological person or failing identity system to a successor estate, representative, or continuant. ## Continuity Significance It prevents identity from becoming stranded when biological credentials are revoked or trust roots change. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Estate, executor, registry, and credential-succession mechanisms provide pieces; no general continuant identity succession regime exists. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Succession must not automatically declare the successor numerically identical to the source. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] · [[wiki/Root of Trust Succession|Root of Trust Succession]] · [[wiki/State Lineage|State Lineage]] · [[wiki/Legal Identity After Substrate Transition|Legal Identity After Substrate Transition]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE -->