# Preservation Pending Status Determination **Domain:** Deep Time / Personhood / Preservation **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Normative precautionary doctrine ## Definition **Preservation Pending Status Determination** is the rule that potentially person-bearing digital state should be preserved while moral or legal status is genuinely unresolved and deletion would be irreversible. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It preserves adjudicative option value. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Evidence law, stays, injunctions, specimen preservation, and emerging AI-welfare preservation commitments supply structural analogues. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Preservation can be dormant and need not imply active service or legal personhood. ## Evidentiary Boundary The doctrine should yield where preservation is impossible or creates overriding safety harms, but destruction requires explicit justification. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Precautionary Preservation Under Moral Uncertainty|Precautionary Preservation Under Moral Uncertainty]] · [[wiki/Reversible Suspension|Reversible Suspension]] · [[wiki/Dormant Preservation Default|Dormant Preservation Default]] · [[wiki/Metaphysical Abstention|Metaphysical Abstention]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->