Experiment ID: CC-EXP-COMPOSE-01
Version: 0.1
Date: 19 September 2026
Targets: RRAP v0.1 Candidate · QMAP v0.1 Candidate · Assessment Assertion Profile v0.1 Candidate · Commons Non-Promotion Rule
Standing: INTERNAL — EXECUTED COMPOSITION / BOUNDARY TEST. NO PUBLICATION OR IMPLEMENTATION AUTHORISED.
Question
Do the three admitted Commons candidate profiles compose into a coherent semantic system without collapsing their responsibilities or requiring a new universal ontology?
Executive result
STRONG PASS — THE THREE PROFILES FORM A COHERENT, ORTHOGONAL SEMANTIC KERNEL CANDIDATE.
They are not a sequence and not a stack.
They answer three independent questions about semantic artefacts:
- RRAP: What role is this representation/evidence item playing relative to a subject/proposition?
- QMAP: What relationship is being asserted between independently identified resources, for what purpose and on what basis?
- Assessment Assertion Profile: What did an assessment conclude about a subject/aspect against an explicit basis?
The Commons Non-Promotion Rule constrains transitions/inferences among all three.
Composition fixture — external requirement to operational evidence
Boundary tests
C1 — RRAP role becomes QMAP relation
REJECT.
REFERENCE/DESIGNED/IMPLEMENTED/OBSERVED are roles, not source-target mapping predicates.
PASS.
C2 — QMAP relation becomes RRAP role
REJECT.
A mapping relation does not define how the mapping artefact is relied upon.
PASS.
C3 — QMAP mapping proves conformance
REJECT.
Requirement→control mapping may define coverage/alignment but Assessment Assertion is separately required.
PASS.
C4 — RRAP IMPLEMENTED proves conformance
REJECT.
PASS.
C5 — RRAP OBSERVED evidence becomes assessment outcome
REJECT.
Evidence informs assessment; outcome is basis-relative.
PASS.
C6 — Assessment outcome changes RRAP role
Not automatically. Governance/process may create a new role assignment where appropriate.
PASS.
C7 — Assessment of QMAP assertion
Allowed. A QMAP Mapping Assertion can itself be the subject of an Assessment Assertion.
PASS.
C8 — RRAP role on Assessment Assertion
Allowed where useful; e.g. published external assessment may be REFERENCE to another process.
Does not alter assessment semantics.
PASS.
C9 — Mapping between Assessment Assertions
Allowed through QMAP if a real relationship is being asserted.
PASS.
C10 — Same provenance shared across profiles
Allowed through PROV-compatible provenance without merging profile semantics.
PASS.
Multi-domain fixture
The same composition survives:
- regulation→control→implementation→evidence→assessment;
- clinical guideline→care design→treatment→measurement→assessment;
- software standard→design→deployment→runtime→validation;
- building code→design→construction→inspection→finding;
- vendor claim→technology alignment→customer configuration→observation→assessment.
PASS.
Orthogonality finding
The three profiles are best modelled as orthogonal semantic projections, not layers.
A resource may simultaneously participate in:
- an RRAP role assignment;
- one or more QMAP assertions;
- one or more Assessment Assertions.
No profile owns the resource.
Kernel candidate
The diagram is conceptual, not implementation architecture.
Non-Promotion hostile tests
- REFERENCE → DESIGNED automatically? NO
- MAPS_TO → SAME_AS? NO
- IMPLEMENTED → CONFORMANT? NO
- OBSERVED → TRUE? NO
- ASSESSED-CONFORMANT → ACCEPTED? NO
- PUBLIC → AUTHORITATIVE? NO
- CERTIFIED → RUNTIME-ADMISSIBLE? NO
STRONG PASS.
Is a fourth core profile required?
No missing semantic responsibility was exposed by the composition fixture itself.
Potential lifecycle/change concerns cut across all three and should be tested separately before becoming another profile.
Decision
CC-EXP-COMPOSE-01 — STRONG COMPOSITION PASS.
- RRAP, QMAP and Assessment Assertion Profile compose coherently.
- Treat them as orthogonal semantic profiles, not sequential layers.
- Commons Non-Promotion Rule is a cross-cutting governance invariant.
- Reuse external standards/domain semantics.
- No universal Commons ontology is required.
- No fourth core profile is justified by composition alone.
- Advance to Change/Supersession/Revalidation test.
- No public or implementation consequence.