From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

PharmacoVig_BOS said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

GenomicsKate said:

Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…

Same pattern here, and in the same order.

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.