# Twin Sovereignty **Domain:** Digital Rights / Digital Twins / Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Rights Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Concept Status:** Interpretive synthesis developed in this corpus ## Definition **Twin sovereignty** concerns rights and legitimate authority over persistent operational representations, including their identity binding, provenance, correction, portability, access, revision and downstream use. It does not mean that a represented person or institution must own every model maintained by another legitimate actor. It means that no consequential representation should become an invisible, irreversible ontological superior to its subject. ## Governing Variable Twin sovereignty governs the relationship between represented subject and operational model. ## Material and Computational Manifestation Personal agents, health models, risk records, facility twins and institutional profiles can persist across time and influence access. Sovereignty requires knowing which representation was consulted, what supports it, who updated it, which systems consumed it and how contradictory evidence can enter. ## Relation to Governance [[wiki/Representational Due Process|Representational Due Process]] supplies procedural protections. [[wiki/Exit-Capable Interoperability|Exit-Capable Interoperability]] and portability prevent continuity from becoming infrastructural captivity. ## Failure Modes Failures include identity mismatch, model drift, untraceable downstream propagation, non-portable memory, irreversible scoring and institutional claims that the model is proprietary even when its errors govern another person's life. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Twin|Digital Twin]] · [[wiki/Model-Subject Boundary|Model-Subject Boundary]] · [[wiki/Representational Authority|Representational Authority]] · [[wiki/Exit-Capable Interoperability|Exit-Capable Interoperability]] · [[wiki/Model-Space Sovereignty|Model-Space Sovereignty]]