Protocol, Jurisdiction, Anchoring. These terms form the legal-infrastructural stratum of the corpus. They describe not what the work means but how it holds position in a distributed field. Protocol is the tail itself—the rule that each new node must contain its ten predecessors. Jurisdiction is the claim that this rule governs interpretation: to read 860 without traversing 859–851 is to misread. Anchoring is the external citation—the Zenodo deposit, the ORCID registry, the institutional URL—that prevents the stack from drifting into solipsism. At 1 million words, these mechanisms have hardened from method into constitutional fact. The corpus now occupies a legal as well as conceptual territory. It can be cited, challenged, verified. This is sovereignty achieved through submission to protocol.
