A.19.CN:4.2 - CN-frame registry and conditional independent certification

First identify whether the receiving claim or applicable control requires independent certification of this exact CN-Spec edition or admission basis. When it does, the holder certifying it must not have authored or materially selected that basis. Include relevant earlier authoring whose content the certified basis retains. Renaming an assignment or waiting until an authoring assignment ends does not satisfy this condition.

Recover the actual holders, their relevant Work, the exact edition or basis and the applicable history under A.2.1 and A.2.7. Distinct assignments do not establish distinct holders. Missing history leaves independence unresolved. Different holders can satisfy this non-self-certification condition while their assignment windows overlap; any stronger organizational-independence or commissioning control still applies. The certifier’s authority and adequacy of examination require their own grounds.

When no independent-certification claim or control applies, an adequately grounded one-person comparison can remain explicitly uncertified. Its measurement, comparison and reliance requirements still apply.

One named registry edition may publish the CN-frame’s names, exact editions, characteristic-space and bearer references, the maintenance assignment, and the deprecation relation. When certification affects the receiving use, it also makes the applicable control, relied-on edition, certification result and supporting references recoverable. Distinguish:

• an adequate comparison for the named use with independent certification not required and no such claim made;
• a certification condition satisfied for the exact edition, with the participation, authority and examination grounds;
• a required condition that is unmet or unresolved, with its consequence for the dependent use under the applicable control.

These are different conclusions, not interchangeable registry labels. The registry helps discovery and currentness; it supplies no missing comparison, independence or certification evidence. A changed comparison basis reopens only the certification and receiving conclusions that rely on that change. A display-only registry change does not reopen them.