With the stationary Killing field continued from $r>0$, the fixed-M Boyer--Lindquist continuation of Kerr has a second asymptotically flat end with ADM mass $-M$. We separate this metric fact from the sign of Komar functionals and formulate the data required to compare other continuations across the regular ring-bounded disk. The resulting tuple is a bookkeeping device; four cases are treated only as representative prescriptions. Re-deriving the classical Darmois--Israel data for the timelike disk world tube, we prove that no real smooth tangential identification preserving the first fundamental form can join two identical positive-M Kerr blocks by a normal-reflection collar as a C¹ vacuum spacetime. For the identity and simultaneous (t,φ) reversal maps, the jump is twice the one-sided second fundamental form and produces the familiar disk layer. We also record the standard Carter crossing conditions R(0)=-a²Q and polar admissibility. Their role here is diagnostic: because an open set of timelike and null geodesics reaches the regular disk transversely in finite affine parameter, a one-ended model must supply a genuine continuation or identification there. No global completion, time orientation, chronology, or stability result is selected.
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