Required inputs
Earliest defensible instant
Latest defensible instant
Evidence for each bound
Requested chart features
Ordered execution
Work the protocol
- 1
Reject false minute precision.
- 2
Construct a closed uncertainty interval.
- 3
Evaluate each requested feature across the interval.
- 4
Retain stable features and withhold unstable ones.
- 5
Version a new interval only when new evidence arrives.
Outputs
- Time interval
- Feature stability table
- Withheld-feature list
Done only when
- Every feature is stable or withheld.
- Interval provenance is explicit.
- No precise-looking chart overrides the source.
Fail closed
Refusal conditions
- A midpoint is presented as observed.
- Rectification is treated as source evidence.
- No basis exists for either interval bound.