Every record says what it rests on.

• recordStatus

  The property a record carries, or one fact on a record. Its value is one record status flag.

• RecordStatusFlag

  The flag itself: one status, the instant of the last review, and the document behind it.

• status

  One of the five values of this vocabulary. A reader that meets any other value ignores the flag.

• lastReviewed

  The instant of the newest review behind the status, in ISO 8601: the reading of the document, the subject’s confirmation, or a reviewer’s ruling on a correction. Empty when none is on file.

• document

  The document the status rests on: the address it was published at and the SHA-256 digest of the bytes that were read. Empty for a status that has no document.

• verified

  The fact was read from a document that a registry published.

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  Verified from the commission's document

  Rests on

  The registry’s own document, held by its address and by the digest of its bytes.

• reported

  The fact was published on the open web and is not yet backed by a registry document.

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  Reported on the open web

  Rests on

  The page that published it. Reported facts are carried apart from verified ones and are never summed with them.

• subject_confirmed

  The person the record is about claimed the record and confirmed this fact.

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  Confirmed by the athlete

  Rests on

  The registry’s document and the subject’s own confirmation, which is kept with its date.

• subject_corrected

  The subject filed a correction to this fact and a reviewer accepted it.

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  Corrected at the athlete's request

  Rests on

  The correction the subject filed and the ruling of the person who reviewed it.

• disputed

  A correction or a doubt is open. The fact stays on the record while it is reviewed.

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  Disputed

  Rests on

  An open correction from the subject, or an open doubt about the fact. The status says that a dispute exists and nothing of what it contains.

The rules

1. 01

   Derived, never declared.

   Nobody types a status in. It is worked out when the record is read, from what is on file: the document, the subject’s confirmations and corrections, a reviewer’s rulings.

2. 02

   A dispute never removes a fact.

   A disputed fact stays where it is, marked as disputed, until a person has reviewed it.

3. 03

   Only the subject can confirm or dispute.

   Only the subject of a claimed record can confirm it or dispute it, and only on their own record.

4. 04

   Every change leaves a receipt.

   A confirmation, a correction and a ruling are each kept with who, what and when. Nothing is overwritten.

5. 05

   The status says that, never what.

   A status says that something is disputed. It never carries the private detail of the dispute: not the note, not the reason.

The public key

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