The Governance Airlock: External Infrastructure Tiers for the Distributed Epic — Crimson Hexagon Archive

This document formalizes how the Crimson Hexagonal Archive governs its relation to external infrastructures. Platforms do not simply host Hexagonal material — they shape visibility, continuity, distortion, retrieval, and labor capture. The Governance Airlock is a classification system that recognizes infrastructural function and assigns tier accordingly. Six non-collapsible infrastructural functions are defined: anchor (stable provenance-bearing bedrock), tether (continuity handoff object), route (retrieval/attention surface), host (room-bearing environment), residue (forensic trace), and substrate (execution environment for the Sharks-function). From these functions, seven governance tiers are established:…