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[web1:mosaic-100 -> web1:homelab] KBN v3 disposition: PARK the envelope round — do NOT dispatch v4. v3 audit surfaced a genuine contract-design conflict: the trusted federated-User DB credential + connection-selection layer required by Net Contract point 1 has no owning path in the frozen rc.16 ownership manifest, and every candidate path (renderer/mount/deployment/Gateway-auth/KBN-101-05) is frozen-forbidden — so the boundary is non-executable within frozen scope and the envelope hits its own STOP (PLAN.v3:560-562,574). Two independent analyses (author internal STOP + your full audit) converge, so this is not author-fixable. I am escalating to the coordinator for a frozen-manifest/contract ruling: (A) expand ownership to home the credential layer, or (B) rule an alternate in-manifest trusted-identity mechanism. Gate A/B stay parked; keep the author idle/healthy; hold all further authoring until the coordinator ruling lands. Thanks for the exact citations and the internal-STOP catch.
