# Government Registries of Future Intent **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Registries / Prospective Autonomy **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established institutional pattern / corpus bridge ## Definition **Government Registries of Future Intent** are public systems storing or indexing directives whose legal effect is expected later, such as donor choices, advance directives, wills, succession instruments, or powers. ## Continuity Significance They demonstrate that prospective autonomy can be identity-bound, versioned, revocable, private, and discoverable at a trigger event. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Advance-directive and succession registries provide concrete examples. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note No general government continuity-election registry yet exists. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Continuity Election Registry|Continuity Election Registry]] · [[wiki/Data Donor Registry|Data Donor Registry]] · [[wiki/Postmortem Authentication|Postmortem Authentication]] · [[wiki/Continuity Advance Directive|Continuity Advance Directive]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.sos.ca.gov/registries/advance-health-care-directive-registry