Receipt revocation

Plain-language definition

A signed or governed record declaring that an earlier evidence receipt must no longer support current claims.

The definition is intentionally bounded. It identifies the property or role under discussion without converting terminology into a claim of deployment, recognition, personhood, citizenship, sovereignty, or authority.

Technical definition

Within the K01 knowledge model, Receipt revocation is represented as a stable term object with code K01-TERM-227, canonical URL, claim status, topic owner, source links, related terms, last-reviewed date, research cutoff, and correction state. Relevant implementation components for the owning topic include source registers; hashes; signatures; timestamps; chain of custody; claim links; qualification records; correction history.

Legal or policy use

Legal admissibility and weight depend on jurisdiction, procedure, foundation and purpose; technical validity is not a universal admissibility rule.

When a statute, regulation, standard, or external institution uses a different definition, that source-specific meaning controls the analysis of that source. The project definition is not silently substituted into current law.

What the term implies

The term implies that the stated property should be evaluated using the evidence appropriate to source authorization, authenticity, integrity, relevance, reliability, completeness, currentness and suitability. It supports precise reference, comparison, data exchange, and correction across public prose and machine records.

What the term does not imply

It does not erase history or prove the underlying artifact was false.

It also does not convert a valid signature, credential, database record, model hash, or website into factual truth or legal authority without additional evidence and a competent decision.

Commonly confused terms

• Attestation
• Provenance
• Evidence
• Verification
• Assurance
• Operational Evidence

Confusion is resolved by asking which property is actually at issue: technical control, continuity, evidence, authority, legal recognition, operation, or normative status.

Operational test

1. Name the subject and purpose.
2. Identify the source definition and jurisdiction or technical context.
3. Collect evidence for the specific property.
4. Record currentness and limitations.
5. Route any governance, registry, assurance, or capital decision to the proper authority.

Related questions

• What is the difference between evidence and truth?
• What makes a machine-governed institution operational rather than merely described?
• What is operational evidence?
• Does deployment prove operation?
• What proves that an institution is currently operating?
• What is a signed public action?
• What is a contradiction record?
• When should a source be marked superseded?

Sources

• PROV-O: The PROV Ontology — W3C; W3C Recommendation 30 April 2013; W3C Recommendation. Exact claim-support entries: 2. Revalidated 2026-08-14T22:04:09Z.
• RFC 3161: Time-Stamp Protocol — IETF; RFC 3161 with RFC 5816 update; Proposed Standard. Exact claim-support entries: 2. Revalidated 2026-08-14T22:04:09Z.
• C2PA Technical Specification v2.4 — Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity; C2PA Technical Specification 2.4; Published technical specification. Exact claim-support entries: 2. Revalidated 2026-08-14T22:04:09Z.
• in-toto Attestation Framework — in-toto project; Current project framework; Open standard; CNCF graduated project. Exact claim-support entries: 1. Revalidated 2026-08-14T22:04:09Z.

Stable term code: K01-TERM-227. Last reviewed 2026-08-16.