Controls · The evidence trail · Element
The artefact
What is produced when the control operates.
The part
What it is
System logs, signed approvals, timestamped records and reconciliation outputs are all evidence produced as a by-product.
A record created specifically to serve as evidence is weaker, because it can be created without the control having operated.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.