About SISMIQ

SISMIQ (pronounced “seismic”) is a foundational system architecture addressing identity continuity under interruption, partial observability, and distributed execution. It treats identity continuity as a system-level responsibility, independent of any particular implementation, inference method, or sensing modality.

The architecture emerged from recurring failure patterns observed across modern distributed and spatial systems, where identity degrades or collapses when observation becomes unreliable, execution spans heterogeneous environments, or recovery mechanisms operate without stable identity authority.

SISMIQ establishes durable architectural principles for preserving and re-associating identity across interruption. By operating at the architectural level, it remains applicable across evolving technologies and application domains while providing a stable foundation for systems that require reliable identity continuity, recovery, and correctness under real-world operating conditions.

SISMIQ is an independent system architecture framework, with its technical reference and associated materials authored and maintained by Joshua Goldman, and subject to ongoing technical review.

Patent Pending
Certain aspects of the SISMIQ architecture are the subject of a pending U.S. patent application covering architectural preservation of identity continuity under interruption across heterogeneous compute environments. The pending claims relate to system-level identity authority preservation and validated re-association under interruption across heterogeneous compute environments. Certain additional aspects related to architectural verification of identity continuity and evidence sufficiency under interruption are covered by a separate pending filing.

SISMIQ materials are provided for architectural review, internal evaluation, and conceptual alignment. Architects and technical leaders exploring identity continuity challenges under real-world interruption are welcome to reach out for discussion.