G.6:9 - Consequences

Benefits:

• downstream records cite evidence-provenance paths without copying evidence tables;
• source, bridge, policy, edition, and time changes reopen the smallest path slice;
• evidence, assurance, causal use, status, gate, work, and publication claims stay in their subject patterns;
• provenance becomes replayable and privacy-minimizable through scoped refs.

Costs:

• path identity, node typing, and source-currentness refs add overhead;
• graph paths can look like routes unless declarative representation discipline is kept visible;
• users must resist treating one complete path as a complete downstream decision.