Canonical & governance
Semantic resolver, identity, authority, policy, canonical repository and durable history.
Architecture
Complete architecture.
Minimal initial machinery.
Build every architectural doorway now. Install specialized machinery only when it earns its place. RSM semantics stay stable while infrastructure evolves behind explicit ports.
Projection & discovery
Search, graph, spatial, temporal, vector and Biography views — rebuildable and non-authoritative.
Intelligence
Embedding, model and reasoning providers create Derived artifacts without crossing authority boundaries.
Federation & integration
Protocol transport, discovery, selective disclosure, reconciliation and connectors across sovereign nodes.
Infrastructure serves the model
No technology gets to redefine RSM semantics.
PostGIS≠Place
Neo4j≠Relationship
pgvector≠Truth
LLM≠Assertion
OIDC≠Authority
Kafka≠Event
Space + time
Geography is part of the runtime, not decoration.
Place is foundational. PostGIS provides the initial spatial substrate while RSM keeps geometry, provenance, precision, validity and disclosure semantics explicit.
watershedfieldfacility
One place. Many authorized views.
Public — county / watershedNetwork — generalized regionFormation — exact geometry
Valid time and recorded time remain separate so RSM can ask not only where, but where, when, and known as of when.
Architectural sockets
The ports exist before the specialized engines do.
Initial adapters may all live in PostgreSQL. The contracts ensure graph, vector, model, broker or spatial infrastructure can be replaced without cutting through RSM Core.
CanonicalRepositorySemanticResolverIdentityResolverAuthorityEvaluatorPolicyEvaluatorSearchIndexGraphProjectionSpatialRepositorySpatialIndexTemporalQueryVectorIndexEmbeddingProviderModelProviderReasoningProviderFederationTransportDisclosureEngineConnectorAdapterBlobStoreTelemetry
Five milestones
From semantic foundation to conformant ecosystem.
R0Foundation + canonical core
R1Protocol + projection runtime
R2Federation + integration
R3Outcome formation + intelligence
R4Full conformance + adoption