Pathway A of 5
Understanding Identity
What is RSM ID, and why does identity need to persist?
Why systems lose track of the same thing, what a permanent identifier changes, how an RID differs from a name, and why identity is kept apart from description.
Steps
Journal
Why Persistent Identity Matters
Every system that touches a farm, a mill, or a watershed keeps its own record, and none of them can say with certainty that the others mean the same thing. This Journal explains why that is a structural problem, and how a permanent identifier separated from every description of the resource addresses it.
Seednote
RSM ID
The universal identity infrastructure of RSM, governed by RSM Core.
Seednote
RID
The permanent canonical identifier of one resource referent.
Fieldnote
Why an RID should not encode its meaning
Why an RID carries no type, place, owner, or host — and why the meaning-rich parts live in names and metadata that are allowed to change.
Viewgraph
One referent across many systems
How one real-world resource keeps one RID while a cooperative, a certifier, a buyer, and a watershed council each keep their own records, identifiers, and governance.
Reel
The Journey of an RSM Identity
A guided sequence in eight frames — from a resource in the world, through registration, naming, resolution, and revision — showing what changes around an identity and what never does.
Viewgraph
The complete RSM ID architecture
How the RID, RRN, Identity Record, registries, resolver, Semantic Space, and Locus fit together — and which of them hold identity, and which hold knowledge.