Research

Architectural motivation for Recur’s standards.

Authorization as a Missing Layer in Digital Systems

Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18175964

This paper identifies authorization as a missing first-class layer beneath execution and motivates explicit, time-bounded, revocable authorization objects in digital systems.

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Background

Recur originated from research into separating authorization from execution in digital value systems.

The original architectural paper, The Recur Whitepaper: The Flow Layer for Digital Value (v1.2), provides historical context and motivation for the standards defined here.

→ Read the whitepaper (Zenodo) / SSRN pending