Response Routing

Mapping action-governing meaning to an operational pathway

1. Canonical Definition

Response routing is the event-internal operation by which Action-Governing Meaning (AGM) is mapped to an authorized response pathway. Routing specifies how governing meaning is operationalized through execution, deferral, escalation, or inhibition. Routing does not create meaning or authority, and does not resolve the Event Closure State.

Routing operates only while action determinacy holds. If determinacy is lost, routing cannot proceed and interpretation must reactivate.

2. Phase and Preconditions

• Operates: event-internal

• Requires: Action-Governing Meaning (AGM)

• Presupposes: action determinacy

• Does not require: action execution, Event Closure State resolution, crystallization, or legitimacy

3. Scope and Exclusions

Response routing is not:

• identical to action execution or outcome

• a binding or governance act

• an event-boundary determination

• a post-event classification

• a generator of meaning or authority

• a corrective mechanism for loss of determinacy

4. Structural Role

Response routing occurs after binding and prior to Event Closure State resolution. It translates AGM into an operational stance by selecting a pathway consistent with the governing constraint. Routing makes response selection enactable under the in-force baseline, but does not alter which meaning governs or whether the event resolves to closure or explicit openness.

Routing is conditional on determinacy. When determinacy does not hold, the system cannot complete routing under the existing baseline and interpretation must reactivate.

5. Authority and Legitimacy Status

• Authority relation: neutral

• Legitimacy relation: not applicable

Routing operates under the authority conditions already established at binding and does not create, remove, or revise legitimacy.

6. Available Routing Pathways

Response routing authorizes one of the following pathways:

• Execute: carry out an action consistent with AGM

• Defer: postpone action while AGM remains governing

• Escalate: transfer jurisdiction for further binding

• Abort / Inhibit: block action under the governing constraint

These pathways are mutually exclusive within a routing decision.

7. Common Category Errors

• Treating routing as synonymous with execution

• Assuming routing creates or revises meaning

• Treating deferral as absence of governance

• Confusing escalation with disagreement rather than jurisdiction transfer

• Treating loss of determinacy as a routing pathway rather than a reactivation trigger

8. Canonical Cross-References

Action-Governing Meaning (AGM) • Binding • Interpretation • Interpretive Jurisdiction • Determinacy Conditions • Action Determinacy Loss (ADL) • Event Closure State • Meaning Regimes (PCMR / DMR)

9. Plain Statement

Response routing is how governing meaning is translated into what a system does next, or deliberately does not do.