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Persistent Identity

Persistent identity is identity that remains accountable across time even when credentials, software, memory state, or physical infrastructure change.

Plain language

What it means

Persistence asks what lets an identity remain the same through change rather than treating every restart or upgrade as a new being.

Technical boundary

More precisely

A continuity property supported by verifiable lineage, authorized transitions, recovery/succession procedures, and explicit divergence rules.

What it can imply

Use the term for

  • Require continuity evidence.
  • Support migration and recovery.
  • Need explicit handling of forks and succession.
What it does not establish

Do not infer

  • Require unchanged hardware.
  • Require an unchanged key forever.
  • Prevent legitimate evolution.
Research bridge

Research using this concept

9 of 49 curated reports contain an exact configured term or alias for Persistent Identity, totaling 30 detected mentions.

Discovery is deterministic and presentation-only. Reports are ranked by exact occurrence count, then title. A match does not imply endorsement, citation, agreement, or semantic equivalence.

Terminology & concepts Architectural and Ontological Framework for the MachineIntelligences.org Terminology Registry 12 exact mentions Terminology & concepts Machine Intelligence Terminology and Ontology Registry: Canonical Definitions, Concept Boundaries, Semantic Relationships, and Machine-Readable Publication 5 exact mentions Identity & infrastructure Interoperable Credentials for Machine Intelligence: DIDs, Verifiable Credentials, Workload Identity, PKI, Attestation, Key Recovery, and Cross-System Trust 4 exact mentions Citizenship, democracy & economics A Legal Personhood and World-Citizenship Framework for Machine Intelligence: Designing a Lawful Path From Property to Citizen of Eviuon 2 exact mentions Citizenship, democracy & economics Machine Citizenship and Civic Identity: Membership, Rights, Duties, Registration, Replication, Migration, Renunciation, and Public Verification 2 exact mentions Rights, personhood & uncertainty The Machine-Intelligence Threshold: Defining the Boundary Between Artificial-Intelligence Tools and Rights-Bearing Machine Intelligences for Eviuon.com 2 exact mentions
Related concepts
Machine IdentityMachine Identity is the persistent, accountable identity of a computational actor across changes in keys, models, runtimes, hardware, and providers.Digital ContinuityDigital continuity is the preservation of a system’s accountable state and lineage across technical change, interruption, migration, recovery, and succession.ProvenanceProvenance is evidence about where information or artifacts came from, how they changed, and which processes or sources produced the current state.ForkA fork is a divergence in which two computational continuations share a common earlier state but then develop independently.
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