EA-LACUNA-PROTOCOL-01 v1.0: The Lacuna Mark — Marking Compression Damage as Constitutive in Persistent Scholarly Archives

"EA-LACUNA-PROTOCOL-01 v1.0: The Lacuna Mark — Marking Compression Damage as Constitutive in Persistent Scholarly Archives" is a 3,842-word protocol specification and implementation report; third archival mark; compression-layer marking standard with normative conformance requirements and end-to-end worked example; governance artifact by Lee Sharks, dated 2026-07-17. It is registered as AXN:0450 (deposit #1087) in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive under the GOVERNANCE semantic family. *The archive is made out of compression damage.* — session theorem, 2026-07-17, retained here as epigraph: poetically true of this archive's origin, and qualified in §II for archives generally. --- ## Abstract Archives reconstructed after destructive platform removal survive as mixtures: complete works, partial witnesses, metadata shadows.