The evidence requirement

What must exist to demonstrate the requirement was met.

The part

What it is

For regulatory purposes, something done without evidence is close to something not done.

Deciding what the evidence is at translation time is what allows it to be produced automatically rather than assembled before an audit.

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.

Evidence
What must exist as proof.
Text shared type
Retention
How long it must be kept, which is frequently longer than assumed.
Duration shared type
Held where
Where the evidence lives, so it can be produced when asked for.
Location shared type