SIRDA editorial hypothesis — Q011
H011 · SIRDA editorial · published
The institution claims no jurisdiction over non-members. Its determinations become consequential through three separate kinds of power: jurisdictional power over members, delegated by accession; access power held by private parties such as cloud providers, insurers, marketplaces, and customers over resources they control; and sovereign power held by states through licensing, export controls, procurement, and liability law. Each holder acts under its own authority. This hypothesis fails if a determination can reach an outsider only through a claim of authority the outsider never accepted, or if the institution itself carries out consequences it has no lawful basis to impose.