I-D Action: draft-hillier-coverage-attestation-00.txt

Internet-Draft draft-hillier-coverage-attestation-00.txt is now available.

   Title:   The Coverage Attestation Profile (CAP-1)
   Author:  Joel David Hillier
   Name:    draft-hillier-coverage-attestation-00.txt
   Pages:   13
   Dates:   2026-08-20

Abstract:

   A report can be complete and still silent about its own scope.  A
   statement that something was not observed is routinely recorded in a
   form that reads as a claim about the world, when what was established
   was a claim about a bounded population examined to a stated depth.
   Nothing in the record distinguishes the two, and no relying party can
   recover the difference after the fact.

   This document specifies the Coverage Attestation Profile, CAP-1: a
   tool-agnostic vocabulary for stating what an examination examined,
   what it did not, and why.  A conforming document declares one or more
   populations, a denominator for each whose basis is itself declared,
   and an individual accounting for every unit that was not examined,
   drawn from a closed set of dispositions.  A remainder that reconciles
   only by arithmetic is refused.

   The construct is not novel outside this application.  Coverage
   accounting with a declared denominator is settled practice in
   configuration assessment and in vulnerability scanning, and this
   document states that relationship in Section 1.2 before making any
   claim of its own.

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