📖What it means

A hard boundary around who may reach a paid vendor lane. Claude Max is ringfenced to the operator alone; Carol's metered lane is ringfenced to her own identities. A ringfenced role whose lane is unavailable gets a VISIBLE refusal — never a silent fallback to somebody else's budget.

📖Easily confused with

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📖Also called

- fence
- access ringfence
- provider fence

📖Filed under

Category: money.

Service: Cost Center.