Basic age assurance

What the clause says

Basic assurance is the first level above an unvalidated claim. The public working draft on benchmarking gives it an external benchmark of at least ninety per cent classification accuracy.

What it supplies to a comparison

The benchmark figure is a planning reference from the public draft, not a published requirement. It lets a comparison state a pass mark while the DIS text remains unpublished.

Evidence to keep

• The threshold applied and the source of the threshold.
• The test set balance and the measured balanced accuracy.

What the evidence looks like

For 6.1.2, the first artefact is The threshold applied and the source of the threshold.. The second is The test set balance and the measured balanced accuracy.. If 6.1.2 has no first artefact, the practice is unproven at 6.1.2, and the report should record the absence rather than infer the practice from a policy.

Questions for the provider

1. Is ninety per cent the right pass mark for this decision, or is it only the draft's floor?
2. What is the error rate near the threshold, not only overall?

How it connects to the draft

Basic age assurance belongs to 6 indicators of confidence, and it gives the analysis one fixed point: The benchmark figure is a planning reference from the public draft, not a published requirement. It lets a comparison state a pass mark while the DIS . A comparison that cannot place a result against 6.1.2 is measuring something the framework has not defined, and the report should say so.

In the register, 6.1.2 is read beside the unit that tests it, and where it sets an objective rather than a number, that unit turns the objective into a question and an evidence artefact.