NODEDC_MISSION_CORE/docs/adr/0029-e36-second-source-catalog-admission.md

ADR 0029 — E36 second-source catalog admission

Date: 2026-07-27

Status: accepted; transfer replay blocked by missing source provenance

Context

E31–E35 are accepted only for the immutable RAVNOVES00 source session. E36 is the first transfer gate: the exact accepted profile must run without retuning on another real K1 capture. A second recording is not eligible merely because it contains a point cloud or can be opened in the viewer. Camera, LiDAR, pose, host time, device, calibration and physical mount identities must all be bindable to that source.

The local source catalog contains historical recordings, including TEST007. Publishing an empty LAB while no source is eligible would confuse a planning blocker with an experimental result.

Decision

1. Source admission is a separate content-addressed audit before any E36 replay.
2. The admission profile freezes the exact E31–E35 result identities and forbids retuning.
3. A candidate must be a ready physical K1 source with point cloud, trajectory, video, exact host-time identity and at least 60 seconds of contiguous camera evidence.
4. Device identity is retained only as irreversible hashes in the redacted inventory.
5. Calibration and mount evidence must each bind explicitly to the candidate source_session_id. A later snapshot from the same scanner and an assumed handheld setup are not substitutes.
6. Public datasets cannot satisfy this mounted K1 transfer gate.
7. A blocked audit authorizes neither a new capture nor an E36 LAB publication. Collection remains a separate operator decision.
8. The audit result has no command, navigation or safety authority.

Catalog outcome

Immutable audit: e36-source-catalog-audit-c5a7b259f043c0a4f3be38f869af1e675dfaa43743e45fd4f43fac166d07f849.

Eleven physical source records were audited. TEST007 is the closest candidate: it is a ready distinct capture from the same accepted K1, has camera, LiDAR, pose and exact host-time evidence, and contains a sealed 2,061-frame camera window of approximately 206.073 seconds.

TEST007 is not yet eligible because:

• no calibration identity is bound to the TEST007 source session;
• no physical mount profile or mount identity is bound to that session.

CAM_REC_TEST also lacks those bindings and its longest contiguous camera window is only 22.884 seconds, below the frozen minimum. The remaining sources do not contain the required camera modality or accepted physical-source provenance.

Consequences

• A9 has completed its catalog-admission sub-gate, but E36 transfer remains blocked.
• The next admissible action is provenance recovery or a new explicit binding artifact for TEST007, based only on primary evidence. It is not threshold tuning and does not rerun E32–E35.
• If both bindings become available, the same audit can be rerun. Only an eligible result authorizes packaging the frozen E32–E35 transfer replay.
• Until then, Mission Core publishes no LAB E36 page and claims no generalization beyond RAVNOVES00.