Field Kit Verification

Form 23-K is the quarterly inspection of the standard-issue field kit carried by verification staff working outside the reading room. The kit is small. Its absence is not.

Most recent consolidated inspection, all issued items:

Controlled dispositions: Present, Missing, Expired, Consumed, Reproducing, Substituted, Ceremonial, Self-referential.

The table records the condition of the kit at inspection. It does not record whether the kit has ever been needed; field work is conducted near the kit, not with it.

Form 23-K Fields

• Officer ID — the inspector. May be the inspected, in which case the form certifies itself.
• Kit seal intact? Y/N — refers to the case seal. The brass seals are counted separately above and cannot be intact, only present.
• Item dispositions — one per row above. Substituted requires a marginal note naming the substitute and the item it believes itself to be.
• Reproducing items — count both; attach a ribbon.
• Missing items — the officer states where the item was last confidently seen, not where it is.
• Authorized countersignature — per the Countersignature Registry. Unauthorized countersignatures are counted as additional signatures and filed under KIT-06.
• Certifying officer — Kindy McExistentialcrisis or delegate. Delegates may certify the kit but not the inspector.

Filing Rules

1. One form per officer per quarter. Officers carrying two kits file twice and are congratulated in writing.
2. Creative dispositions are themselves filed under KIT-08.
3. A Missing disposition does not trigger retrieval. Retrieval is triggered by wanting, which is assessed separately.
4. Copies of Form 23-K circulating as 23-Q, K-23, or "the kit list" are shadow forms per lorelog/LLG-0244-FSC; they are audited wherever found and never consolidated.

Living Document Protocol

• The item list is amended when Procurement issues a new item, or an existing item achieves a disposition the vocabulary cannot hold.
• KIT-10 is amended whenever the kit changes. The amendment is verified against the kit, which is verified against this document.

Attestation Mole, below the line: I have certified this kit eleven quarters running. I have never seen the kit. The kit is sound. The surface holds.

Related

• AC-11 Sealloop Auditor — issuing body for the seals counted above
• mascots/M-0248 — subsurface certification of unseeable kit contents
• mascots/M-0019 — certifying officer
• lorelog/LLG-0244-FSC — shadow form doctrine governing unauthorized copies
• reference/FREF-0939-CSR — authorized countersignature instruments