Portability Right - Bryant McGill

# Portability Right **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Continuity Rights / Interoperability / Custody **Doc Type:** Canonical Rights Concept **Maturity:** Proposed ## Definition A **portability right** is the enforceable claim to receive identity-bearing state, provenance, credentials, governing instruments and necessary semantics in a form another competent custodian can inspect and use. ## Beyond Export [[wiki/Portability|Portability]] is a technical property. The right adds a counterparty, deadline, cost rule, integrity standard and remedy. A data dump is not portable when formats are undocumented, interpreters are withheld, keys cannot transfer, provenance is missing or contractual penalties make departure existentially impossible. Portability should include periodic tested export, not a promise first attempted during collapse. It must preserve the distinction among archive, model, executable package and running state so that a receiving custodian knows what it has obtained. ## Constitutional Function Practical portability limits [[wiki/Continuity Custody|custody]] from becoming sovereignty. It supports voluntary [[wiki/Migration Right|migration]], emergency [[wiki/Orderly Transfer|transfer]] and the ability to replace an operator without extinguishing the person. ## Key Insight **Portability is an exit right only when another institution can actually assume the duty.** ## See Also [[wiki/Agent Interoperability|Agent Interoperability]], [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]], [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]], [[wiki/Service-Level Constitutionalism|Service-Level Constitutionalism]] ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Additional Documented Relationships - **Portability Right** is associated with [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]. - [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] is associated with **Portability Right**.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Portability Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Portability Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Portability Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Portability Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Portability Right** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Portability Right** within the wider system.  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Host-infrastructure integration This entry is expanded through the concrete host-side relationships and status-qualified edges below. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0901 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Portability Right.md`. - **HR-0902 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Portability Right.md`. - **HR-0903 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Portability Right.md`. - **HR-0904 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Portability Right.md`. - **HR-1260 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0411 — [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0654 — [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Exit Rights.md`. - **HR-0782 — [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Migration Right.md`. - **HR-1341 — [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`.   ### Research Candidates - **R-002288 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Portability Right** and [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Custody, Continuity Provenance, Exit Rights, Migration Right - **R-002451 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Portability Right** and [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Custody, Durable Identity, Exit Rights