Cutdown Compliance Evidence Freshness Policy

Decision

Compliance evidence freshness is version-triggered only.

There is no fixed time-based recertification requirement.

Validity Rules

• A claim remains valid while language version and referenced corpus snapshot remain unchanged.
• Any language version change or corpus snapshot change requires new evidence before claim reuse.
• Evidence must reference exact parser build/version used for the run.

Claim Revalidation Triggers

• New language version release.
• New conformance corpus snapshot.
• Change in claimed compliance level.
• Change in declared extension/profile coverage manifest.

Forbidden

• Reusing evidence from a different language or corpus version.
• Presenting stale evidence after coverage manifest changes.

Related

• ./compliance-levels-policy.md
• ./conformance-corpus-governance.md