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A.6:4.1.1 - AssuranceLane skeleton (informative)

An MVPK AssuranceLane is a publication face that teaches a specific audience how to adjudicate E-* claims against the relevant evidence carriers, including those produced in Work. It cites the boundary’s evidence-interface declarations and explains them without changing their semantics.

Minimal content (suggested):

  • Scope: boundaryRef, version; viewRef and viewpointRef when view or viewpoint identity matters.
  • Carrier inventory: carrier-class and carrier-schema refs (A.7 Carrier) + where to obtain them.
  • E‑claim map: a table keyed by E-* ID with: measurement conditions, carrierRef(s), join and correlation keys, and a reference to the canonical E-* text that defines pass or fail criteria.
  • Operational policies: references to relevant D-* duties (retention, access control, exposure), without redefining them.
  • Limitations: sampling, redaction, missing signals, expected false negatives and false positives.

No new semantics reminder. An AssuranceLane may explain adjudication informatively, but any new boundary claim first enters its canonical source. A changed permission-looking claim cites its selected A6-AW-* row and subject pattern rather than being introduced inside the face.

Example (conceptual; uses view/viewpoint identity and the additional hypothetical header case in §4.2):

AssuranceLane:
  viewRef: <ViewId>
  viewpointRef: <ViewpointId>
  boundaryRef: <BoundaryId>
  version: <SemVer or revision>
  evidence:
    - E: E-OBS-1
      carrierRefs: [Carrier.AuthorizationRecord, Carrier.AuditLogEntry]
      measurement:
        conditions: "on every request lacking header X (A-AC-1)"
        vantage: "Operator and auditor pipeline"
        correlation: ["traceId", "requestId"]
      adjudication:
        check: "query audit stream for code=NotAdmissible and join to traceId"
        criteriaRef: "E-OBS-1 (pass or fail criteria live canonically in the E-claim)"
      references: [A-AC-1, D-RET-1, Mechanism.AuditObservability]

The absence condition also covers a request that was not rejected. A claim of complete coverage requires the relevant request population to be accounted for separately from individual query joins.

Default placements (quadrant → stack layer / section):

  • L → Signature.Laws (and, where appropriate, mechanism‑local semantic laws; never runtime gates)
  • A → Mechanism.AdmissibilityConditions
  • D → generic prescriptions, individual duties or commitments, recommendations-as-duty, prohibitions, and A6-AW-NORM-GRANT claims at their exact A.2.8 or A.2.8.PER subject pattern
  • E → actual occurrences, evaluated findings, and evidence claims, including A6-AW-EXERCISE, A6-AW-WEAK, A6-AW-CONFLICT, and A6-AW-SOURCE when those claims are current

Related subject rules (informative):

  • A.6.1 ↔ A‑quadrant: U.Mechanism.AdmissibilityConditions is the canonical claim layer for A-* gate and admissibility claims.
  • A.10 / B.3 ↔ E‑quadrant: for an E-* claim used for reliance, recover the A.10 evidence-provenance path and bounded use. A missing path narrows or blocks only the unsupported use. Open B.3 only for an actual named assurance claim about an exact target and assurance use.
  • A.2.3 and F.12 ↔ D/E separation: a U.PromiseContent promise is not evidence; promise acceptance is linked to Work evidence via F.12. A general duty remains normative content, while an obtaining individual duty is one A.2.8 U.Commitment borne by an actual System or other admitted party. Any system-role kind or assignment used to establish applicability stays separate. D-* claims reference A-* and E-* claims by ID or canonical location when needed.

A stack is useful because the intended direction of change is clear:

  • Lower layers (realizations, audit formats, transport mechanisms) are expected to change more frequently and can often evolve without forcing higher‑layer changes, provided higher‑layer commitments remain satisfied.
  • Changes to higher layers are boundary-claim evolution and typically require explicit compatibility reasoning (and therefore explicit versioning and communication).