Governed Summarization

Summarization is treated as a benign operation and is a classification event. A summary of restricted material is restricted; a summary spanning several records may carry a higher sensitivity than any of them individually, because the combination reveals what the parts did not. Systems that generate summaries without inheriting the source classification create unlabelled derivatives, which then circulate freely because nothing marks them.

Summaries produced in Centralpoint are governed records rather than transient output — carrying classification derived from their sources, scoped by audience and subject to retention. Where a summary draws on records of differing sensitivity, the governing classification is the most restrictive rather than the average, which is the only defensible default.