This page is about intent rather than delivery. Everything below is what the work is meant to become, and none of it describes what exists today.
A record says what was done. It does not say whether the condition it was done to still holds a month later, and a site drifts: a page is added in one language and not the other, a person leaves, a link starts returning nothing.
The intention is that each clause should become a condition checked continuously rather than asserted periodically — so that “published in every language the practice works in” is something confirmed on every change, in the way a test suite is confirmed.
A standard with no records written against it is a document. A standard that several practices’ work has been recorded against begins to be a reference, because its clauses start meaning the same thing to different readers.
The intention is that clause identifiers will accumulate that kind of weight — that two people will be able to name a clause and not have to explain it.
The record will continue to state what happened rather than judge it. It will carry no score and no rating, and it will not tell a practice what its own obligations are.
That restraint is not caution about liability. A record that issued verdicts would be less useful to the person reading it, because the part they can act on is the action, the time and the change — and the part they cannot act on is somebody else’s opinion about their position.