El Mundo — Methodology Versioning
Each Asiento track has two attributes — active/inactive and current/superseded — bound by an atomicity rule: at most one version of a
lineage may be active at any time. Three legitimate states; one forbidden combination. Diagram 5 — Methodology Versioning.
TIME →
t₁
PdC v1 registered + activated
t₂
v2 registered & activated;
v1 deactivated (atomic)
t₃
v3 registered & activated;
v2 deactivated (atomic)
t₄
v3 deactivated
(no successor)
Pulpería
Operational ledger — observed
kept by the Pulpero
Postas arrive continuously. Methodology lifecycle does not affect the operational ledger:
Contaduría
Corporate ledger — derived
kept by the Contador
Track 1 — Asientos under PdC v1
active & current at t₁; transitions to inactive & superseded at t₂ (atomic); remains so afterward
Cierre
Cierre
Cierre
[ACTIVE · CURRENT]
[INACTIVE · SUPERSEDED]
Track 2 — Asientos under PdC v2
begins at t₂; active & current until t₃; transitions to inactive & superseded (atomic at t₃)
Cierre
Cierre
Cierre
— track does not yet exist —
[ACTIVE · CURRENT]
[INACTIVE · SUPERSEDED]
Track 3 — Asientos under PdC v3
begins at t₃; active & current until t₄; deactivated at t₄ with no successor → inactive & dormant
Cierre
Cierre
Cierre
— track does not yet exist —
[ACTIVE · CURRENT]
[INACTIVE · DORMANT]
Cabildo
Audit ledger — administrative
kept by the Secretario
Two shapes of atomic Cabildo edit govern the lifecycle. The first registers a new version (and atomically deactivates its predecessor, if any).
The second deactivates a version without a successor — the only mechanism that can leave a lineage dormant.
register v1
activate
register v2 + activate
deactivate v1 (atomic)
register v3 + activate
deactivate v2 (atomic)
deactivate v3
no successor
The State Matrix
Two attributes, bound by atomicity: at most one version of a lineage may be active.
CURRENT
SUPERSEDED
ACTIVE
INACTIVE
in force
currently writing Cierres
forbidden
atomic edits prevent this
dormant
no successor → soft-deleted
historical
queryable, no new writes
No Delete State. Soft-Delete Is Derived.
A version is "soft-deleted" iff it is inactive and no successor lineage is current.
Deletion is computed by walking the Cabildo, never stored as a flag. The append-only
commitment is preserved: dormant Asientos remain queryable for audit under the
methodology in force when sealed; they simply accept no new Cierres.
Rollback Is Re-registration, Not Reactivation.
A superseded version cannot be reactivated. To return to v1's rules after running v2,
register a new PdC v3 mirroring v1 (atomically deactivating v2). The old v1 track stays
inactive-superseded; a fresh v3 begins. The Cabildo records a deliberate choice.
Deferred:
physical erasure for GDPR / regulatory right-to-be-forgotten —
orthogonal to architectural soft-delete; a separate compliance design problem (Round 5+).
Three kinds of truth, three independent timelines. Postas observe; Asientos derive under a versioned methodology; the Cabildo records every methodology lifecycle event as an atomic act.
El Mundo lexicon, version 2026-05-07 — Roderick Consulting Inc. and RGC Argentina S.A. — Diagram 5 — Methodology Versioning