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G-067Public

Source compliance & terms-drift monitoring (No Gotchas)

Tier 2 — Structurally thin, not launch-blocking
Status
Open — design drafted
Owner
Creator
Why now
The curated-source ingest strategy (G-066, Entry 033) is only safe if compliance is continuous. Terms of service change silently; a one-time check at nomination is a future gotcha. This is the standing, fail-closed monitor that keeps every source and API we use within its permitted-use terms.
Depends on
G-066, G-044
Related
Entry 033, Entry 019, Entry 028, Entry 030, G-066, G-053, G-052, G-044, G-002, G-058, G-041, G-061

A per-source compliance record (terms/robots/license URLs, archived snapshot, permitted-use determination, last-reviewed date) plus a daily job that diffs those terms and auto-pauses ingest on any change — fail-closed, with a timestamped audit trail for legal defensibility.

Why this matters

Entry 033 decides the fail-closed "No Gotchas" posture; this is its mechanism. It is the legal-side mirror of structural drift detection (G-041) and shares infrastructure with external-content monitoring (G-053).

Proposed design

  • Compliance record — every source/API in the registry (G-066) carries: ToS/T&C URL(s), robots.txt, license, an archived snapshot (hash + stored copy) of each, the permitted-use determination, and the last-reviewed date.
  • Daily monitor — fetch each tracked terms/robots/license URL, diff against the stored snapshot. Scope: nominated sources, Entry 019 provider APIs, and Entry 028 external references.
  • Fail-closed handling — on any diff (or unreachable/ambiguous terms): auto-pause that source's ingest, archive the new version, notify the compliance owner (G-061), and queue a re-review. Resume only on an affirmative re-determination.
  • Audit trail — retain every timestamped terms version, so we can always prove what the terms said when we ingested under them.
  • Ownership — a designated compliance role (high-Power / legal-designated) performs re-reviews; routine monitoring is automated.

Open decisions

  • Where authoritative terms live per source (multiple URLs, regional variants).
  • Diff sensitivity — meaningful-change detection vs. cosmetic edits (avoid alert fatigue without missing material changes).
  • Permitted-use taxonomy and re-determination workflow (depends on G-044, G-002).
  • Retention policy and storage for archived terms snapshots.
  • SLA from change-detected to ingest-paused; handling of in-flight ingests.

Related

  • Entry 033 — the No Gotchas decision this implements
  • Entry 019 — provider APIs (also monitored) · Entry 028 — external references
  • Entry 030 — reciprocity/attribution ethic applied to sources
  • G-066 — source nomination & pattern-authored ingest (the registry this guards)
  • G-053 — external content monitoring & drift detection (shared infrastructure)
  • G-052 — external-reference verification & relatedness policy
  • G-044 — CC-BY-SA derivative scope · G-002 — IP/copyright posture
  • G-058 — AI crawler & data-licensing posture · G-041 — mapping versioning & drift
  • G-061 — notification & activity system (compliance alerts)