Audit & Telemetry

Evidence Standards

Establish what a record must contain for governed activity to be reconstructable afterwards.

Protocol Family: Audit
Status: Published
Version: 1.0
Effective Date: 2026-08-13
Related Department: QRCodex.us
Scope: Records created under the recording requirements of Audit & Recording.
Purpose: Establish what a record must contain for governed activity to be reconstructable afterwards.
Dependencies: audit

A record is only useful if the event can be rebuilt from it.

Audit & Recording establishes that meaningful transmissions and state-changing events create records. This document states what those records must establish.

A sufficient record establishes

•Who or what acted during the interaction
•What occurred during the transmission
•When it occurred on the infrastructure timeline
•Which Protocol governed the action
•Which conditions were evaluated prior to activation
•What outcome resulted from execution

Refusals carry the same evidentiary weight as approvals. A governed system that records only what succeeded cannot demonstrate that what failed was refused for a governed reason.

Jurisdiction of the record

Protocol establishes the requirement. The authoritative operational record and its evidence are maintained by QRCodex.us. This documentation library is not a registry and holds no records.

Definition

Evidence is the retained material that allows a governed interaction to be reconstructed after it has occurred.

Governing Rule

A record is sufficient when the interaction can be reconstructed from it without relying on memory or inference.

What it governs

— What a sufficient record must establish
— How long the record must survive the object
— Where the record is maintained

Permitted

— Retaining records after the operational object is no longer active
— Recording refusals, failures and exceptions as evidence in their own right

Not permitted

— Recording only successful outcomes
— Reconstructing an interaction by inference where a record was required
— Relocating the authoritative record outside the Codex environment

When the condition passes: The interaction is reconstructable from the retained record.
When the condition fails: The recording requirement is unmet, which is itself an exception condition under Failures & Exceptions.
Department performing the operation: Protocol establishes the standard. QRCodex.us maintains the applicable records and evidence within its jurisdiction.
Record / evidence required: Actor, action, time, governing Protocol, conditions evaluated and resulting outcome.
Where the operational record lives: QRCodex.us.