Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Make erasure intent effective and auditable even when physical deletion cannot occur immediately.
- Meaningful outcome
- A scoped erasure request exists with authority, affected records, retention blockers, immediate suppression actions, and expected completion path.
- Boundaries — includes
- request scope, owner authority, reason where supplied, affected references, retention status, exposure suppression, tombstone/erasure-request event, deadlines, and status.
- Boundaries — excludes
- physical deletion, cryptographic erasure, deleting required audit evidence, and broad account closure unless explicitly scoped.
- Terms and concepts
- An
erasure request records intent and governance state; it is not proof that physical deletion completed.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Register erasure intent
- Actor
- The owner or explicitly authorized representative.
- Command / intent
- Request erasure of a defined data scope.
- Current state
- Target records can be identified and the requester's authority can be evaluated.
- Policies / invariants
- Scope and authority are durable; active retention constraints are visible; affected content stops appearing in retrieval and derived views where required; request status is not misrepresented as completed deletion.
- Transition
- Record the request, create the applicable tombstone or request event, and apply immediate exposure controls.
- Result
- An accepted, denied, blocked, or clarification-required erasure request.
- Events / effects
- May initiate derived cleanup and later physical or cryptographic erasure.
- Unknowns
- Identity-verification strength varies by sensitivity and consequence.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Retention-delayed deletion must remain distinguishable from completed erasure.
- The request and its authority evidence must remain auditable.
Recommended defaults
- Provide a scoped status explaining what is hidden, deleted, retained, or pending.
Unknown / unresolved
- Legal retention exceptions and appeal paths remain jurisdiction- and service-specific.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| Erasure intent is recorded immediately and can suppress exposure before physical deletion is permitted. | rule/invariant | sourced | C22. |