---
uai: "1.0"
type: topic-memory
status: active
project: iarpg.com
release: "IARPG-OPS-2"
version: "2.0.27-wip"
review_state: current-until-superseded
---

# Round-Trip Preservation

## Purpose

Test import, normalization, export, reimport, migration, merge, backup, and selective restore without erasing the original representation.

## Current doctrine

- Exact byte equality, semantic equality, canonical equality, IDs, UTC timestamps, array order, and unknown fields are reported separately.
- Original and normalized representations remain independently exportable.
- Rejected imports remain visible and exportable.

## Shared Constraints

- Apply [repository constraints](constraints.uai#non-negotiable-constraints).

## Relevant standards

- https://iarpg.com/standard/round-trip-preservation
- https://iarpg.com/standard/project-canonical-json-profile

## Relevant mission examples

- https://iarpg.com/mission/port-access-anomaly-investigation
- https://iarpg.com/mission/cross-border-ceasefire-verification
- https://iarpg.com/mission/internal-leak-counterintelligence-review

## Deep report links

- [Intelligence Operative Archetypes and Tradecraft](../docs/long-term-memory/reports/intelligence-operative-archetypes-and-tradecraft.md#analytical-liaison-and-support-roles)
- [Justice System and Warrant Escalation for Rogue Intelligence](../docs/long-term-memory/reports/justice-system-and-warrant-escalation-for-rogue-intelligence.md#strategic-fit-with-rogue-intelligence)
- [Monetary Architecture, Genesis Allowance, and Economic Stabilization](../docs/long-term-memory/reports/monetary-architecture-genesis-allowance-and-economic-stabilization.md#ledger-schema-and-telemetry)

## Related UAI records

- [canonical-json.uai](canonical-json.uai)
- [migration.uai](migration.uai)
- [saved-work-backup.uai](saved-work-backup.uai)