Proof · The proof set · Element

The evidence

The specific artefact supporting the claim.

The part

What it is

Evidence must be a thing that exists — a measurement, a named reference, a certificate, an audit. A belief held confidently is not evidence.

The strongest evidence usually comes from customers rather than from the organisation, which is a reason to make it easy for them to provide.

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.