RUAIRI - Recognition and Utilization of Authorized and Intermediated Reference Intelligence. An Architecture for Protected Recognition, Protected Eligibility, and Governed Release under Bounded and Fragmented Trust

RUAIRI - Recognition and Utilization of Authorized and Intermediated Reference Intelligence - is an application-neutral protected intelligence pipeline operating under bounded and fragmented trust. It separates Protected Recognition, Protected Eligibility, and Governed Release while independently constraining information-state and authority-state progression. In canonical RUAIRI, a Sensor derives and protects an application-approved representation within its own trust domain, and an authorized Protected Reference Custodian (PRC) evaluates it against protected reference intelligence without obtaining readable query content, reference content, or recognition outcomes. RUAIRI does not prescribe a cryptographic primitive or require a distinct Sensor key domain; implementations may vary so long as the same access, authority, and disclosure boundaries remain enforceable. The proposed contribution is compositional: distributed observation need not imply distributed reference custody, and successful recognition need not itself create readable knowledge or consequential disclosure authority. A protected information state may advance while corresponding authority remains bounded, and authority granted at one boundary does not imply authority at the next. Decision-state invariant: recognized ≠ eligible ≠ releasable