Several regional review boards are now in open disagreement over who should control the first canonical copy of a high-order signal once it enters multi-jurisdictional infrastructure.
The dispute is not merely archival. The institution that gets the first canonical copy gains major influence over tempo, framing, access control, and disclosure discipline, even if it does not formally own reply authority. That is why first-copy rights have become so politically charged. They are a quiet form of protocol power.
Until those rights are settled more clearly, every serious signal path will carry a territorial argument alongside the interpretive one.