16. The owner's values never reach the schema or the docs¶

• Date: 2026-10-29
• Status: accepted
• Rule: The definition and the docs hold names and meanings only, never the owner's values: two owners who map the same model and firmware get the same definition.

Context¶

The schema and the docs are meant to be shared; the owner's settings are not.

Decision¶

The schema holds names and value meanings only. A label that would reveal the owner's choice is not planned.

The test: two owners with different settings who map the same model and firmware completely get the same public definition. Whatever would differ between them (a value a camera held, how, when, in which run or from which state the camera was found each thing was proved) stays in the mapper's private evidence file, beside their runs, never in the definition.

Consequences¶

Docs show counts and layouts, never a value from the owner's files. The public definition is lean: a proof says which values it checked, or that a sampled scale lies on one line, and nothing of how it was made (the data files' page); kit/tools/check_public.py refuses one that carries more.