Systemmay
Systemmay is a term used in speculative discussions of systems architecture to describe a meta-level governance layer that can authorize or deny actions by subsystems. It is not a formal standard, but a design idea employed to explore how permission decisions might be centralized or decoupled from individual components.
Definition and scope: Systemmay refers to a policy layer that evaluates actions against the current system
Design considerations: A workable systemmay should be auditable, deterministic, and composable across subsystems. It often relies
Applications: In distributed systems, systemmay can gate API calls, data access, or configuration changes based on
See also: policy-based access control, capability-based security, feature flags, governance models, audit trails.