Inception-vs-Release Lag Distribution + Governance Taxonomy [Report #126]

Plain read: the engine holds the Substrate-vs-Announcement pattern (#88 / Divergence #79) but never MEASURED it. This is the quantified inception->public-release lag across 7 paradigm technologies. LAG TABLE: Internet (ARPANET 1969 -> WWW 1993 = 24yr, Commercialization/Path-Dependency; Baran/RAND, Licklider, Kleinrock); Public-Key Crypto (GCHQ classified 1970 -> declassified 1997 = 27yr, Classification/State-Security; see gchq_public_key_cryptography); GPS (NAVSTAR 1978 -> Selective-Availability off 2000 = 22yr, Dual-Use/Strategic-Staging; see gps_selective_availability); Stealth F-117 (Have Blue 1977 -> acknowledged 1988 = 11yr, Classification/classified-beyond-top-secret program); Nuclear Timberwind (SDI 1987 -> audit exposure 1991 = 4yr, Classification/classified-beyond-top-secret program; see timberwind_nuclear_propulsion); AI (Transformer 2017 -> ChatGPT 2022 = 5yr, Compute-Scaling; Perceptron 1958, DARPA SCI 1983-93 failed); Genetic Engineering (recombinant DNA 1973 -> Genentech/insulin 1980 = 7yr, Deliberate-Staging/Asilomar). DISTRIBUTION: range 4-27yr, MEAN 14.2, MEDIAN 11 -> the state/academic/military-industrial substrate runs ~10-25yr AHEAD of broad public deployment. GOVERNANCE TAXONOMY (5 mechanisms): (1) Commercialization/Path-Dependency; (2) Classification/Special-Access-Program; (3) Dual-Use Export-Control/Strategic-Staging; (4) Compute/Infrastructure Scaling; (5) Deliberate Staging (voluntary moratorium / regulatory). RESIDUE & APEX (HELD): most lags = ordinary friction = V2 Structural-Recurrence (DARPA SCI + Timberwind died on hardware/budget/EPA, NOT omnipotence); a MINORITY — GPS Selective-Availability + GCHQ crypto — show DELIBERATE STATE STAGING (a mature substrate degraded/withheld until secrecy was moot) = V1-Orchestration-adjacent but BOUNDED single-agency (NSA-class/the Department of Defense (DoD)), NOT a coordinating apex (per Divergence 'Covert Space-Nuclear Substrate — Announcement-Masking, Not Breakaway' #203). Apex dial NOT moved. The report's 3-way sort field-tested the Operational Discrimination Matrix #155. Tier-2 esoteric claims (ZPE-1940s / time-travel-1950s / simulation-discovered-1970s) quarantined as V3 Projection — see jason_jorjani. Source: Report #126.