A contractual process used to formalize concurrence at PDR by the Acquisition Customer with development requirements allocated to a CI. In effect, it forced the Developer to admit to intended capability for each CI and also (importantly) forced the Acquisition Customer to commit to paying for development if compliance were shown at FCA.
More recently, both parties typically chicken out of this whole notion, deferring Authentication until FCA (or even later, if they can get away with it)1.
Footnotes- This mostly happens because it enhances our later ability to make it look like we did things on purpose.[↩]