[ PROOFECONOMY ]™GlossaryOriginSpecsOpen Verification
Open Verification is verification whose method and records are open for others to inspect. It is more transparent than closed verification, but it is still the system speaking for itself.
What it means
Open Verification publishes how a system checks itself and the records it produces, so outsiders can read the method and inspect the output. Transparency is a real improvement: hidden methods are easy to game, and published ones can be challenged.
Where it sits
Openness changes who can read the evidence, not where the evidence comes from. The records are still generated by the system under review, so Open Verification remains on the verification rung of the evidence ladder. Moving up requires testing against defined conditions (validation) and, at the top, independent evidence that the required outcome was produced (Proof of Efficacy).
See the full ladder: Verification vs. Validation vs. Proof.
What it does not show
An open, inspectable record of a system’s own claims is still a record of its own claims. Open Verification does not show the system would hold up against a real attacker in a real environment.
Example
A vendor publishes its detection logic and a public log of every alert it raised. Anyone can inspect both. That is Open Verification. It does not show which attacks the product missed.