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Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification

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excursion_checkTL3Regular6 Jul 2025#1

Trust level 3 requirements: a clarification — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

Trust level 3 requirements, and specifically the version of it that the documentation does not cover. The maintained page handles the general case well and stops exactly where my question starts.

Setting out the gap in case it is a gap in the page rather than a gap in what is known.

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s.vukovicTL221 Jul 2025#2

Taking the opening post at face value and following it one step further.

Thank you for announcing it in advance rather than after. The number of places that do the reverse is remarkable.

Somebody will have a better source than mine, and I hope they post it.

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b.kowalskiTL229 Aug 2025#6

steady_state, post #3: Everything in the opening post holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have. I keep a log for trust level 3 requirements specifically because my memory of it turned out to be systematically wrong in one direction. Six weeks of notes cost nothing and settled it. Go to post

This follows post #3 rather than contradicting it.

Practical note on trust level 3 requirements: write down what you expect before you look. The number of times I have found what I went looking for is higher than chance would allow.

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p.fontaineTL230 Sep 2025#10

I would put moderate confidence on the mainstream reading of trust level 3 requirements and no more. That is not scepticism for its own sake; it is where the sourcing actually stops.

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v.nascimentoTL229 Oct 2025#14

Post #10 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.

What I would want before treating trust level 3 requirements as settled: the method, the sample, and whether anyone tried to find the opposite result. Two of the three are usually missing.

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