ADR-0003 — Two entities, one link

Status: Ratified 2026-07-01 (Tim). New; ratified on filing. Series: Canon decisions (project-constitutional — distinct from the infrastructure ADR series adr-001…adr-005). Lifecycle class (per UCCA-ADR-LIFECYCLE-01): F — minted (verified 2026-07-01). Records a corporate fact: two distinct legal entities.

Decision

UCCA Inc (US) owns ucca.online; the engine and the Authority are a USA product in USA jurisdiction. United Central Colleges of Australia Pty Ltd (AU) operates rtopacks.com.au and ucca.com.au in Australian jurisdiction. The entities share a common shareholder and offices; the sole operational link is a commercial data-processing arrangement.

Consequences

• "UCCA" in canon/product contexts means UCCA Inc / the Authority; "UCCA" in Australian corporate contexts (ABN 59 168 872 535) means the Pty Ltd — different entities, not two meanings of one name.
• The engine/client API boundary implements the commercial arrangement.
• World isolation and the Engine Invisibility Rule are corporate requirements, not conventions.

Open items (filed to STRATEGY-01 ledger, not solved here)

1. Legal review on the data-processing arrangement: a US entity processing an Australian company's regulated training data raises cross-border disclosure obligations under AU privacy law. Lawyer's eyes before production RTO data flows through the engine. Not a build blocker.
2. Data residency check: RTOpacks' nine world DBs are pinned APAC, but engine compute runs on the UCCA account. Where processing physically occurs may matter to the agreement's terms — verify infrastructure against whatever the legal review says; do not assume.

Provenance

Ruled by Tim in the 2026-07-01 session. Source of record: ratification message of 2026-07-01, §5.