Appendix A — Design Rationale & Safeguards (Normative)

A.1 Non-Overlap with Justice (L1)

Low PPDI or high RED SHALL NOT automatically trigger Justice outcomes.

They are treated as system degradation signals, not violations by Subjects.

Justice consequences may only arise through DKP-1-JUSTICE-001 using proper attribution and thresholds.

A.2 Non-Overlap with Defense (L3)

This protocol does not address active harm or hostile events.

Defense remains responsible for real-time containment of physical threats.

Transport redesign addresses structural risk generation, not attacks.

A.3 Autonomy & Future Transport Modes

Autonomous or assisted transport systems are evaluated identically:

• if RED approaches zero, economic pressure shifts to PPDI competition,
• ownership form is irrelevant,
• physical impact remains the sole criterion.

A.4 Axiom Compatibility

This protocol is compatible with:

• A1 (Preservation of Life),
• A5 (Externality Accountability),
• A7 (Minimum Suffering Constraint),

without encoding axioms as direct enforcement triggers.

A.5 Finality

Upon freeze:

• any modification requires a new protocol identifier,
• explicit incompatibility declaration,
• full-system simulation under DKP-8-SIMULATION.

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