Anchor does not own claims as a general institutional object and does not determine whether a claim is true, false, supported, certified, or trusted.
Within Anchor, a claim matters only when a claim statement, declaration, assertion, or related artifact becomes the subject of an Integrity Reference.
A claim may be created, governed, evaluated, certified, registered, preserved historically, or attested by another institution or process.
Anchor's role begins only when the integrity of a defined claim artifact or representation should be preserved.
A Claim Artifact is a statement, declaration, assertion, record, or governed representation containing a claim that may become an Anchor integrity-preservation candidate.
FoundationAnchor should preserve the Source Institution, source identifier, authoring context, or other attribution necessary to understand who or what governs the claim artifact.
FoundationAnchor should define the exact Canonical Representation and Representation Boundary of the claim artifact before generating integrity material.
FoundationAnchor may preserve an Integrity Reference that allows a later reviewer to determine whether the reviewed claim representation remains consistent with the representation that was originally anchored.
FoundationAnchor preserves integrity context for the artifact. It does not preserve a separate claim ontology unless later production demonstrates a genuine institutional need.
A claim is an assertion. Evidence may support or challenge that assertion. Anchor may preserve integrity for either artifact without deciding the evidentiary question.
Certifier may evaluate a claim or record under its own standards and methodology. Anchor may preserve integrity context for the resulting artifact without becoming the certification authority.
Chronicle may preserve a qualifying historical Occurrence involving a claim through a Chronicle Entry. Anchor may preserve integrity for the claim artifact or Chronicle representation without becoming the historical authority.
Attestor may later issue a Trust Statement concerning a claim, source, artifact, or institutional conclusion. Anchor may preserve its integrity without determining trustworthiness.
A claim artifact may later be revised, withdrawn, superseded, corrected, rejected, certified, or preserved historically by its Source Institution.
Anchor should preserve the integrity lineage of the representation it actually anchored rather than silently rewriting the earlier reference.
If the Source Institution changes or corrects the claim itself, that is a Source Artifact change.
If Anchor recorded the wrong claim artifact, digest, representation boundary, timestamp, or other Anchor-owned metadata, that may require an Anchor Correction.
Claim integrity often depends on preserving enough attribution to understand which person, institution, system, signer, or process produced the claim artifact.
Anchor should preserve only the attribution necessary for integrity review and accountability.
Each institution remains authoritative for its own canonical object.
Anchor should preserve the integrity of a claim artifact when that integrity has durable value, while leaving claim meaning, evaluation, certification, historical interpretation, and trust conclusions to the institutions responsible for those functions.