# Portability **Domain:** Infrastructure / Rights / Continuity **Doc Type:** Canonical Infrastructure Node **Maturity:** Foundational ## Definition **Portability** is the practical ability to move data, state or function between custodians and substrates without losing integrity, meaning or rights. ## Evolutionary Nexus Public genome formats and recombinant DNA in [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] show different forms of encoded structure crossing institutional or biological boundaries. ## Continuity Context Export is not enough. Portability requires documented semantics, compatible interpreters, provenance and freedom from contractual retaliation. It limits the residual sovereign's power to make exit equivalent to death. ## See Also [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]], [[wiki/Technical Obsolescence|Technical Obsolescence]], [[wiki/Knowledge Commons|Knowledge Commons]], [[wiki/Substrate Transition|Substrate Transition]]