A.15.6:4.6 - Apply work continuity rather than label or focus continuity

Project-focus succession and actual-project Work continuity are different questions. A changed focus-defining claim, EntityOfConcern, or effective scheme identifies another C.2.1 episteme. It becomes another focus edition only through an obtaining EpistemeEditionRelation under the project-focus continuation rule in 4.0a; a same chooser or label is insufficient. Neither another focus episteme nor an edition relation continues or reidentifies performed Work. Conversely, one composite Work may continue under its declared A.15.1 policy while its focus episteme changes. For interrupted, resumed, split, merged, or performer-changing project Work, apply the A.15.1 work-part and continuity policy:

• performer or team replacement changes participation and A.13/F.6 bases but need not change parent-Work identity;
• interruption and resumption remain episodes of one parent Work or become linked Work occurrences according to the declared policy;
• split and merge use work-part, containing-work, predecessor, successor, or new-Work identities;
• failed or terminated Work remains actual project Work even when its intended result is absent or adverse; and
• continuous operations qualify as a project only when one finite composite Work first passes independent A.15.1 admission and obtaining work-parthood, then passes the five project-specific qualifications; any precise assignment-bound performer attribution is a separate later F.6 result.

The organization performing or coordinating project Work is a neighboring U.System. Organization, project-focus, DecisionSubject, or label continuity does not decide project-Work continuity.