External Authority Control (EAC)

EAC is the governance layer that declares which external authorities are canonically admissible in an open-web reconstruction, and under what conditions they may constrain interpretation.

It intervenes after the mapping of external sources and before governed negation or the final authorization of response.

1. Function

• Qualify which external authorities can actually count.
• Declare conditions of scope, evidence, priority, and traceability.
• Prevent external activity from being treated as authority by mere popularity.

2. What EAC is not

• It is not a protocol for absolute control over the web.
• It is not an automatic conversion of the exogenous into the endogenous.
• It is not a default score.
• It is not an alternative to the Q-Layer.

3. Relationship with the rest of the doctrine

The conceptual sequence is as follows: external graph → EAC → governed negation / arbitration → Q-Layer.

EAC complements exogenous governance. It does not replace it. It reduces interpretive entropy upstream, then leaves to the Q-Layer the final decision to produce, suspend, or refuse a response.