A Distributed Object Propagation Network for Authorized State Transitions
Authorization Object Network (AON) explores whether coordination can occur without requiring permission to accumulate within coordinating institutions.
The paper introduces a model in which authorization is externalized into independently addressable objects and execution emerges through discoverable authorization relationships rather than retained authority.
It develops a structural distinction between authorization and authority and argues that authority emerges whenever authorization persists independently of the action for which it was granted.
Authority is authorization retained by the system.
AON treats authorization as a network primitive. Authorization Objects, Condition Objects, Proof Objects, and Receipt Objects form executable authorization graphs from which execution may emerge without requiring a coordinating system to retain permission.