{
  "id": "BRD-222",
  "slug": "brd-222",
  "title": "Editing the brand expires a completed vet",
  "statement": "A completed vet expires when the brand information behind it changes.",
  "rationale": "The vet certifies the brand as it stood, so an edit invalidates it in the same way a change of address invalidates an identity document — and the expiry is silent. Throughput drops back to the unvetted tier and the first anyone knows is a queue building on a send that used to clear.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "the brand diff vs the vet state",
  "severity": "HIGH",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_EXTERNAL",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Batch brand edits and make them before ordering the vet, not after. Where an edit is unavoidable on a vetted brand, budget for re-ordering the vet and expect the cooldown in BRD-221 to apply to it.",
  "notes": "The expiry happens at the registry when the change lands. What the user has to do is treat a completed vet as pinned to the current brand record: check whether an edit is worth losing it before making it, because getting it back costs the fee again and the time again.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "attestation": {
    "question": "Is this brand edit worth losing the completed vet that is pinned to the current record?",
    "howToCheck": [
      "Check whether a completed vet is attached before making the edit.",
      "Batch edits and make them before ordering the vet, not after.",
      "Where the edit is unavoidable, budget for re-ordering the vet and expect the three-month cooldown to apply."
    ],
    "failureLooksLike": "The expiry is silent. Throughput drops to the unvetted tier and the first anyone knows is a queue building on a send that used to clear."
  },
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-222/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-222.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}