The Reception
Doctrine
How the institution disciplines itself in the seconds, days, and seasons after an unsolicited archive arrives — before publishing, before thanking, before refusing.
- 01Anonymous-introducer rule
Receipt
Any unsolicited archive enters through an anonymous introducer. The institution does not record, publish, or refer to the transmitting parties. The introducer is the firewall between the network and the institution.
- 02Provenance discipline
Hash on arrival
Every document is fingerprinted on arrival (SHA-256). The hash list is published at a fixed URL. The documents themselves are not re-published. If the transmitting parties later dispute what was received, the hash list settles it.
- 03SAFE · HOLD · EXCLUDE · NOT INDEXED
Triage into four buckets
Each organisation is sorted: SAFE for cite-only publication, HOLD pending verification, STRUCTURAL EXCLUSION where the org advocates for the lifting of foreign proscription against the LTTE or shares branding with a proscribed entity, NOT INDEXED for administrative material. Ratios are published. No individual is named.
- 04Refuse co-signature
Posture-lock
TLTE cites external organisations as Tier-A external source material where substance aligns. TLTE does not co-sign, join joint letterhead, endorse, or amplify campaigns. The refusal is structural, stated in writing, lodged in the Continuity Changelog.
- 05Non-removable plaque
Publish cite-only
Every public surface derived from the archive carries a non-removable provenance plaque stating how the archive reached the institution, the cite-only posture, the refusal of co-signature, and the anonymous-introducer rule. No future steward may silently remove it.
- 06Translate advocacy into questions
Neutral-inquiry, never endorsement
Where the archive contains advocacy at a public body, TLTE may produce a neutral-inquiry instrument — an MP Pack or PQ template — that asks the body to STATE its position. The instrument is designed so that tabling it is not endorsing the underlying advocacy.
- 07Continuity Office, not Founder
Acknowledge in writing
A one-page acknowledgement is drafted by the Continuity Office per the Structure Doctrine. It states the cite-only posture, identifies the channel for future transmissions, declines all meetings and correspondence. Held at OUTREACH-NNN. Not published.
Let A be the archive, T the set of TLTE's published positions, and E the set of the archive's external campaigns.
Exposure is bounded by T ∩ E — substance the institution holds and the archive advances. Co-signature collapses the intersection into a union: every e ∈ E becomes attributable to TLTE. Citation preserves the boundary.
In information-theoretic terms: citation is a low-mutual-information channel. The institution learns from A without becoming statistically dependent on A's framing. Co-signature is a high-mutual-information channel: TLTE's posture becomes derivable from the archive's.
The Reception Doctrine maximises learning while minimising dependence.
The institution never initiates the relationship.
The institution never names the transmitting parties.
The institution never co-signs.
The institution never publishes the documents — only the hash list and the index.
The institution never translates Tier-B advocacy into TLTE voice.
The institution never exempts a famous contributor.
The institution never permits a future steward to silently relax these rules.