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Revision Index Filing
MS-08Era: mirror-springTech tier: 4
Mirror Spring etiquette for filing REV A and REV B on the same corridor—late chisels, amendment throats, and offset witnesses that force two indexes to admit the same footsteps.
When the Glass Consensus Symposium ratified MS grammar, it did not abolish first drafts. It indexed them.
A published survey is revision A—law until someone walks the line and proves the map lied politely. A correction filed after the charter stamps is revision B. Institutions trained on harbor certainty call this incompetence. Salt flats, sealed laboratories, and any corridor that breathes call it honesty with a late fee.
Filing order
Revision A must exist on the wall before revision B may be chiseled beside it. The symposium does not erase A; it amends. Chisel marks that replace A without showing the seam are contraband narrative—auditors treat them the way Syndicate manufactories treat surge-laundered ash: colorful, billable, seizure-adjacent.
Late filing is permitted when:
- the first survey was ratified under triad seal before the ground admitted its error;
- an expedition or harbor lot has already walked the corridor under charter; or
- bearing debt has accumulated on the margin and a witness line is cheaper than a retrial.
Amendment, not overlay
Two revisions on one breath is not a fork unless the land insists. Where corridors overlay, cartographers file B-as-amendment-to-A: one throat, both marks visible, auditors forced to read pride as arithmetic. Offset witnesses—receipts written by ripple-ink or neutral ink depending on which wall was calibrated—are the symposium's compromise between perjury and silence.
Who signs
Mirror schools file MS revisions first. Harbor tiers negotiate AE stamps second. Guild chutes accept dual stamps when cargo must speak to both indexes in one ascent. The Iron Syndicate prefers a single index and will listen for the moment stripes disagree.
Meta pages
Entries labeled meta in the catalog ribbon record how collections may be read without inventing new obligations. Revision index filing is not prophecy. It is house style for correction—the humility clause that keeps expeditions from becoming heresy when the flats remember storms sideways.
Scholars who mock late chisels have not yet knelt where two catalogs pretended they had never met.