v0.21.1 - RFC Prior Art and Design Lineage

v0.21.1 - RFC Prior Art and Design Lineage

Added

• docs/rfcs/prior-art.md mapping each RFC to the established public standards it generalizes — X.509/PKI (RFC 5280), Ed25519 (RFC 8032), W3C DIDs/VCs, SAML 2.0 federation, OpenID Federation 1.0, OCSP (RFC 6960), Certificate Transparency (RFC 9162), DNS-SD/mDNS (RFC 6762/6763), OAuth 2.0 scopes, capability tokens, SPIFFE, PKI path building (RFC 4158), PGP web-of-trust, and managed PKI / RA delegation.
• A contrast section explaining how sovereign recognition differs from federated identity: no permanent center, portable recognition, cross-boundary revocation, and coordination without control.

Changed

• Linked the lineage from the RFC index and added it to the RFC toctree.
• Bumped package metadata to 0.21.1.

Notes

• This document is design provenance, not an adoption record. It makes no claim that any organization, identity provider, or partner has implemented or endorsed Genesis Mesh. Real third-party adoption remains gated on the external-operator proof workflow.

Verified

• Sphinx docs (warnings-as-errors), full pre-push hooks (mypy, compileall, sphinx, pytest), and package build passed.