A project glossary mixes authority document and citation as if they were the same object. What is the correct IRM distinction?
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Short Explanation
The big rulebook is the authority document; each specific shall-statement you must satisfy is a citation. Don’t catalog the bookshelf as if it were one sentence.
Full Explanation
In Policy and Compliance content modeling, an authority document represents the external or internal source mandate, while citations capture individual requirements within that source. Those citations then map toward control objectives and controls. Reversing or conflating the terms breaks the content hierarchy taught in CIS-RC overview terminology.