Action domain
State Transitions
Infrastructure and configuration changes are the most litigated moments in incident reviews. DAR records the original transition at execution time, so remediation and rollback can’t rewrite history.
Receipt moment
Issue a receipt when the system commits a state change (apply/deploy/rotate/update/delete).
Preserved fields
change action · timestamp · stable change reference · resource reference
Optional: environment tag, approver reference, correlation reference
Common integration surfaces
CI/CD pipelines, IaC tooling, cloud control planes, secrets management, change management workflows.
Why this avoids “source of truth” liability
After outages, vendors get pulled into narrative reconstruction (“your system caused this”). DAR enables a narrower claim: “Here is the verifiable record of the change we executed at time T.” Interpretation remains outside the vendor boundary.