What this attestation records
An hours-corrected attestation is the mechanism by which an organization updates an earlier hours-verified attestation that turned out to be factually incorrect. Unlike a dispute (different-signer counter-claim), a correction is a same-signer supersession: the original signer, or another operator authorized under the same organization, updates their own claim.
Corrections follow Notary Spec §4.3 additive-supersession convention. The original attestation is not deleted or revoked. The corrected attestation coexists with the original; downstream readers resolve to the newest non-revoked attestation for a given (subject, reporting_period) pair.
Signer and subject
Signer: an operator authorized under the same organization as the original attestation's signer (typically the same operator; may be a different operator under the same delegation chain).
Subject: the volunteer (same as original attestation's subject).
Payload fields
- All fields from hours-verified — the corrected attestation is a complete new attestation, not a partial patch. All fields present with corrected values.
supersedes_attestation_reference— SHA-256 of the superseded hours-verified attestation's canonical bytescorrection_reason— enum:data_entry_error,volunteer_dispute_resolved,hours_recalculated,reporting_period_wrong,othercorrection_narrative— optional free-text explanation of what was wrong and why the correction was issued
Notary Spec provenance
Same as hours-verified. The corrected attestation is not epistemically weaker than the original — it may in fact be stronger, having been produced with the benefit of additional information.
Reader-side supersession resolution
A reader querying attestations for a subject in a reporting period MUST:
- Find all hours-verified and hours-corrected attestations matching the subject + reporting_period.
- Build the supersession chain via
supersedes_attestation_reference. - Resolve to the tip: the newest attestation that is not superseded by any other and not revoked.
Historical attestations remain accessible for audit but are not the current record.