vMEM: Versioned Machine-Readable Entity Manifest for Entity Boundary Protection

vMEM is a lightweight, versioned, machine-readable manifest that allows an entity to declare its official identity, scope, authoritative sources, claim boundaries, exclusions, correction paths, and change history. This upgraded version frames vMEM as an Entity Boundary Manifest: an entity-side public record intended to help businesses, professionals, institutions, products, legal firms, regulated-service providers, and organizations protect their machine-readable representation from misidentification, stale facts, unsupported inference, category drift, entity conflation, and reputational distortion. vMEM is an entity-side representation artifact. It is not a safe harbor, compliance mechanism, or liability shield for AI systems, search engines, answer engines, aggregators, or other third-party platforms. The purpose of vMEM is narrower: to give the represented entity a clear, version-controlled boundary artifact it can publish, maintain, cite, and use when correcting inaccurate machine-mediated descriptions.