Zero-Trust Physical Identity & The MCP Standard
A sovereign compute environment is only as secure as its physical access logs. The AI-Native Office architecture mandates the fusion of cryptographic door strikes with BLE spatial positioning to achieve Zero-Trust physical identity. If the localized acoustic array captures an execution command, the orchestration layer must cross-reference the speaker's spatial coordinates with the physical security logs. If an authenticated physical entry event does not exist in the ledger, the packet is deterministically dropped.
Furthermore, the physical room must be abstracted into a standardized API endpoint utilizing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). By wrapping the hardware sensor stack (uncompressed AV, spatial telemetry, physical door strikes) into an MCP-compliant server, any authorized, localized Large Language Model can securely query the room's physical state using native tool calls, entirely eliminating fragile custom middleware.
Requirements formalizing this section
The narrative above is non-normative. The clauses below state the same architecture as testable requirements, and a conformance claim is evaluated against them rather than against the prose.
- ANO-8.1MUST · Class A, B
A conforming deployment MUST treat entry to the enclave as an authentication event of equal standing to a software credential, and MUST record it as such.
- ANO-8.2MUST · Class A, B
A conforming deployment MUST bind each inference session to the physical identity or identities established as present in the enclave at the time the session is initiated.
- ANO-8.3MUST · Class A, B
Physical access records for a conforming deployment MUST be retained inside the demarcation boundary and MUST be subject to the prohibitions of Chapter 3.
- ANO-8.4MUST NOT · Class A, B
A conforming deployment MUST NOT permit administrative access to inference hardware, storage, or orchestration state from outside its demarcation boundary.
- ANO-8.5MUST · Class A, B
Maintenance performed by a software integrator MUST occur under an identity distinct from any tenant identity, and MUST be recorded with the same fidelity required of tenant access by ANO-8.1.
- ANO-8.6SHOULD · Class A
A conforming deployment SHOULD detect and record the presence of unenrolled individuals in the enclave during an active ambient capture session.
- ANO-8.7MUST · Class C
A Class C shell MUST document the physical access control provisions available at the intended enclave location, and MUST NOT claim identity binding, because no inference sessions exist to bind.