# Future Person Standard **Domain:** Deep Time / Future Generations / Rights **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in future-exposure law ## Definition A **Future Person Standard** is a legal or regulatory metric that evaluates present conduct by reference to the welfare or exposure of people who do not yet exist. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It proves that legal duties can be owed prospectively to hypothetical future humans. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Yucca Mountain's reasonably maximally exposed individual and future-generations frameworks are strong examples. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Continuity law may one day need analogous standards for future instantiations or restored continuants. ## Evidentiary Boundary Future-person standards do not by themselves confer present legal personality on future entities. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Million-Year Regulatory Person|Million-Year Regulatory Person]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Beneficiary|Deep-Time Beneficiary]] · [[wiki/UN Declaration on Future Generations|UN Declaration on Future Generations]] · [[wiki/Intergenerational Stewardship|Intergenerational Stewardship]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->