DESIGN REVIEW

Sharding is infrastructure.
Ownership requires weights.

The submitted iB9 design has a valid capacity-weighted sharding concept, but random initialization, virtual devices, generated shard hashes, or a successful smoke route do not prove a trained native checkpoint.

NATIVE REGISTRATION HOLD

VALID DESIGNCapacity weightingRows may be assigned by rᵢ = floor(mᵢ / Σmⱼ × Nout), with deterministic residual allocation.

NOT EVIDENCERandom tensorsRandom initialization is not learned ownership and contributes zero measured native parameters.

NOT PROVEN1B checkpointNo complete checkpoint, measured tensor census, training receipt, or independent hash verification is attached here.

Required invariant	Current state	Pass condition
Checkpoint identity	HOLD	Stable path + full SHA-256 + format validation
Tensor census	HOLD	Header-derived tensor count and raw learned-parameter total
Training ownership	HOLD	Before/after divergence bound to optimizer and dataset receipts
Shard integrity	SPECIFIED	Shard hashes recombine to the verified source checkpoint manifest
Buddy route	HOLD	Measured inference against the verified weights with failure tests
Registry update	BLOCKED	All prior checks pass and lineage DAG accepts the node

Sharding is infrastructure.Ownership requires weights.

Sharding is infrastructure.
Ownership requires weights.