# HELD: 25 October paywall candidate adjudicated and held at Grade B; registration statement read in primary, provenance upgrade on the evaluation cluster, no new instance

- **Artifact ID:** RA-2026-045-02
- **Status:** VALID
- **Public record:** https://record.cybersecurityhq.com/rating-actions/ra-2026-045-02
- **Machine-record SHA-256:** `bd424ec0f25e859fa237e8d16989d6a547b415fa2f6d684adfd9919137ef297f`

## Complete structured record

```json
{
  "id": "RA-2026-045-02",
  "date": "2026-11-02",
  "issue": "Issue No. 45",
  "condition": "SC-2026-011",
  "action": "HELD: 25 October paywall candidate adjudicated and held at Grade B; registration statement read in primary, provenance upgrade on the evaluation cluster, no new instance",
  "from": "STRENGTHENING / Stable; counted 3; qualifying operators 1",
  "to": "STRENGTHENING / Stable; counted 3; qualifying operators 1; one candidate held on grade",
  "outlook": "Stable",
  "watch": "up",
  "criterion_version": "SC-2026-011 v1.0 (v1.1 declared, not in force)",
  "methodology_version": "v1.3",
  "evidence_rows": [
    "SN-2026-10-28-04",
    "SN-2026-10-28-03"
  ],
  "grades": "Paywall candidate B (press relay of an operator statement); registration statement A (first-party document under securities liability), content read 2026-11-02",
  "independence_determination": "Not the deciding element: the operator is already held on the condition",
  "rule_applied": "Press-relay rule from the Google testimony case; counted instance requires an operator primary naming the reached system",
  "alternative_not_taken": "Count on the operator own words relayed by press (not taken: the record decided once already that a relay is not a primary)",
  "blind_reproduction": "not applicable (no count)",
  "reproduction_result": "n/a",
  "cgs_provisions": "CGS-2.2, CGS-6.2",
  "record_links": "CHQ-RAT-2026-045; CHQ-CATCHLAG-2026-007; the signal ledger SN-2026-10-28-04 and SN-2026-10-28-03",
  "status": "VALID",
  "admission_status": "Not counted. Held at Grade B: no operator-published primary names the reached system. The registration statement read in primary on 2 November 2026 upgrades the provenance of the evaluation cluster and supplies no new instance."
}
```