Paper 21 — Public and Institutional Propagation and Preservation Boundaries in AI and AGI Environments: A Provider-Independent Framework for Record Circulation, Publication Readiness, and Long-Term Reference Continuity

This working paper develops a provider-independent framework for public and institutional propagation and preservation boundaries in AI and AGI environments. As generated outputs, document-state records, role references, authority-condition references, verification traces, time-history records, economic reference objects, domain design references, and physical-digital observations move across organizations and public contexts, the central problem is whether such records are structurally positioned for circulation, public reference, institutional sharing, archival preservation, or later review without being mistaken for official action, public disclosure, evidence confirmation, value transfer, legal effect, or institutional approval. The framework treats propagation as bounded reference circulation and preservation as long-term reference continuity. It does not publish, approve, transfer, decide, certify, settle, authenticate, grant authority, determine legal effect, or replace human and institutional discretion. The paper connects provider-independent structural reference layers, public-sector reference infrastructure, telecommunication edge reference nodes, essential-function parity reference hardware, traceable document-state layers, time-history and seal-reference structures, economic reference objects, domain design references, and post-cloud preservation infrastructure into a public and institutional boundary model. This working paper is Paper 21 of the AGI Structural Alignment Series.