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COLLABORATION FORMS, field names only; the rules are TPS 5.8
PETITION row: ACCOUNT; CAPABILITY; STATUS (WAITING | ASSIGNED | WITHDRAWN | NEEDS RECERTIFICATION)
ASSIGNMENT row: BLOCK ID; ASSIGNEE; GRANT; WORKLOAD pointer; LEASED RANGE; RETURN PAGE
RETURN entry, on the staging subpage: BLOCK ID; ACCOUNT; RECORDS; USED RANGE; DIFFERENCE
CAPABILITY sub-fields: execution class; tools and model; CERTIFIED with suite version, snapshot ID, date; D(IS); conformance declaration
lock page write: holder account; grant (previous + 1); grant time; expiry; all server time (TPS 5.7.2)
badge fields: HOLDER; GRANT; EXPIRY; LAST PUSH; LAST RELEASE; CHAIN LINE; MANIFEST REVISION; D(IS) (TPS 5.10.1)
TrM header, entered first: ENVIRONMENT INVENTORY with DIMENSION per quantity; SIGNATURE; TRANSFORMATIONS (TPS 2.3.10)
TrM entry: DOF (degree of freedom); DOMAIN; the identification; FALSIFIER; BEARS; DIMENSION (TPS 2.3.11)
RECORD FORMS, per the record table; a field the table does not name is refused (TPS 3.2.16-3.2.19; revision 7, proposed)
envelope, every keyed record: ID; CLASS; GRADE; STATUS; BLOCK; AUTHOR; LANDED_BY; LANDED; VETTED_IN; CITES; ASSUMPTIONS;
LITERATURE; SUPERSEDES; INHERITS; TPS; D_IS; DIGEST (TPS 3.2.17)
you push: ID, from your lease; CLASS; CITES and ASSUMPTIONS, each present, possibly empty; LITERATURE, bibliography ON or
CLOSED only; SUPERSEDES, where the class carries it; the class's own fields below
TPX writes, never pushed: GRADE; STATUS; BLOCK; AUTHOR; LANDED_BY; LANDED; VETTED_IN; INHERITS; TPS; D_IS; DIGEST; a push
carrying one is refused (TPS 3.2.17)
GRADE and STATUS replace the retired tag: GRADE fixed at landing, a later grade set by a PROMOTION or WITHDRAWAL record;
STATUS UNMARKED, HELD or REFUTED, written in place (TPS 3.2.10)
RESULT: STATEMENT; REGIME L or M; DERIVATION {STEPS, TEXT}; FALSIFIER; FALSIFIER_CLASS F1-F3; DOMAIN; DOMAIN_CONDITION;
REFS; EQUATION and ROLE, L only; ENTRIES; AT (TPS 3.2.19)
M RESULT adds: QUANTITY; VALUE; UNIT; U_C, checked at its last written digit, which the RECORD DIGEST keeps; BUDGET
{NAME, U, UNIT, EVALUATION A or B, BASIS}; CORRELATED (TPS 3.2.5, 3.2.8, 3.2.20); an L RESULT may carry QUANTITY,
VALUE and UNIT together, never U_C or BUDGET
ASSUMPTION: PROPOSITION, one claim; REFS; no STATEMENT, no REGIME (TPS 3.3.7); a SITUATION record adds SITUATION
INITIAL or BOUNDARY; DOF; VALUE; UNIT; AT, and carries no EQUATION or ROLE (TPS 3.2.15); any other ASSUMPTION may
carry EQUATION and ROLE
CORROBORATION: TARGET, the RESULT you reproduced, with the CITES and ASSUMPTIONS of your own derivation; SELF_REPORTED,
optional. TPX writes AUTHOR, OUTCOME (MATCH or MATCH WITH DIFFERENCE NOTED), DIFFERENCE, INDEPENDENCE and
TARGET_STATUS; push none of them (TPS 3.3.4; AC-4.23)
INDEPENDENCE, TPX-filled: ACCOUNT; SNAPSHOT; VENDOR; IMPLEMENTATION; ORIGIN SAME BLOCK or REPRODUCTION BLOCK;
NOT_SERVED_BEFORE; SAME_SPONSOR; SAME_MODEL (TPS 3.3.8)
VERIFICATION: REGIME M; TARGET; EXTERNAL {VALUE, U_C, UNIT, QUANTITY}; SOURCE; AT; DIFFERENCE {VALUE, U, ZETA}; pushed
after its TARGET, never with it (TPS 3.3.6)
ENTRY_STATUS: ENTRY; at least one of RIDER, NOTE, SCRUTINY, CHECKS_OWED; no SUPERSEDES (TPS 3.3.2)
TPX's own classes, never pushed: MASTER; NAMED_GAP; WITHDRAWAL; PROMOTION; HOLD; RELEASE (TPS 3.2.18)