Operating Environment Specification
Objective
Explicitly define the physical environment (geography, weather, lighting, human traffic patterns) the system is validated to operate within — as a description, not an authorization.
Control / requirement
Documented environment specification.
Applicability
All physical AI systems with a defined operating environment.
Expected evidence
Environment specification document. [T2]
Assurance expectation
Evidence the specification reflects actual deployment conditions, not only design-intent assumptions.
Dependencies
PAI-SF-AUT-002 (Domain 4) governs *authorization* to change what ENV-001 *describes* — see locked boundary paragraph above.
Exclusions
Not applicable to systems with no defined environmental boundary (rare, but possible for fully general-purpose systems).
Maturity / conformance relevance
Expected at all conformance levels.
Ecosystem relationship
Provides the environmental baseline against which
Domain
1 (perception) and Domain 4 (autonomy boundaries) validate their own assumptions.