Shared Record language
The words the Shared Record uses and the words it never uses, so that anything you put beside it (the email that carries the link, an evaluator's report template, a page on your own domain) says the same thing.
The Shared Record says one thing precisely: this is what the recording side wrote, it was committed at these times, and it has not changed since. Everything on the page is written to that, and anything you put beside it should keep to the same words: the email that carries the link, a page on your own domain, the template an evaluation team or an audit firm uses to report what it checked.
The words
| Word | What it means on the page |
|---|---|
| Record | One thing a machine did or produced, with its entries: one evaluation run, one agent session, one release. Never "log" or "audit trail". |
| Entry | One event in a record's life, numbered from 1 in what a person reads. |
| Recorded | Written by the recording side, at the time. The universal word for what an entry is. |
| Committed | In the record, where no one can change it, PacSpace included. The word for what the check confirms. |
| Seal | The value an entry's sealed record reproduces and nothing else does. A reader can check a seal without seeing what the entry says. Never "hash" on the page. |
| Sealed record | The entry's content exactly as it was written. Run it through the same steps and you get the seal. |
| Committed record | The entry as it stands where no one can change it. Shown beside the sealed record in an entry's detail. |
| Revealed | A field the sharer chose to show. "Each shown field was checked against its entry's seal." Fields not shown are counted, never shown. |
| State | What the record says right now, in plain words: recorded, amended, closed. |
| Fingerprint | Of a file the reader or the writer holds. The reader's own file is fingerprinted in their browser; the record carries fingerprints, never files. |
| The check | What the reader's browser does when the record opens, and what the open-source checker does with a kept copy. |
| Written by and is who acted | Two facts, shown apart: the organization and key that wrote the entry, and the actor named inside it. |
| Acknowledged | A reader recorded that they checked the record. "Acknowledged through the link issued to Evaluator E-2, 6 October." |
The sentences that do not change
These are used whole and in this form, or not at all. The first is the page's own boundary for a link that shows seals; the rest are PacSpace's registered lines.
- "The check shows each seal was committed and that all of them are here, in order. It does not show what any entry says, or that what was recorded was true."
- "The check shows the record is unchanged since it was committed. It does not show that what was recorded was true."
- "Once committed, no one can change this record, PacSpace included."
- "A gap in the record is as telling as a change."
- "An amendment is a new entry. This one stays as it was written."
- "PacSpace records and never decides."
The words it never uses
The Shared Record describes and never judges, so these do not appear on it, and should not appear beside it:
verified by PacSpace,PacSpace confirms,PacSpace certifies. PacSpace commits; the reader's browser checks.correct,incorrect,true,false,accurate,validabout what an entry says. The check is about change, never about truth.risk,score,rank,health,anomaly,suspicious,detected,prevented. PacSpace records and never decides. An evaluator's finding is the evaluator's, in the evaluator's own words; it never reads as the record's or PacSpace's.proof ofanything beyond the record being unchanged.- Words for the machinery underneath, and the names of any network or vendor. The page describes the guarantee and never the machinery.
- A sentence that says nothing is missing. The check confirms every entry the record says it has is present and unchanged; it cannot confirm that nothing which should have been recorded is absent.
English only
Shared Record strings ship in English. If you translate what you put beside the page, keep to the same rule: say no more than the page says, and use none of the words above in any language.
Why this matters
The value of the page is that both sides read the same words and neither side wrote them. A word that judges, on the page or beside it, puts PacSpace on one side, and then the record is one more party's account.