Holding statement

A short public statement prepared in skeleton before any incident: what happened as far as it is known, what has been done to contain it, what affected people should do, and when the next update will come. It never speculates about cause.

Developed in
ch. 15, External communications
ch. 05, Pattern: Disclosure & Notification Pipeline
Chapters
ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 15, Deployment
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

One chapter of the Body of Knowledge uses the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Holding statement. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/holding-statement. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026holdingstatement,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Holding statement}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/holding-statement}
}