M9 Completion Summary — Hardening and Compliance

What's done

Foundational pieces only — column-level encryption and basic audit logging exist from the POC. GDPR erasure/SAR/consent, formal DDoS/WAF, load testing, and accessibility compliance have not been started.

What's outstanding

Nearly the entire milestone. This is compliance-critical work (GDPR in particular), so it shouldn't be treated as a "polish at the end" milestone.

Recommendation

M9's scope (GDPR, security hardening, performance, accessibility) is independent of the Reclaim Protocol scope question in M7/M8, and should be planned and requirement-checked on its own terms rather than assumed to follow automatically once M7 is resolved.