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title: "The Sedona Principles — Best Practices for Electronic Document Production — KYE Protocol™ coverage"
description: "The Sedona Principles — Best Practices for Electronic Document Production coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that enforces it."
url: https://kyeprotocol.com/compliance/sedona-principles/
lang: en
source: "KYE Protocol"
---

> The Sedona Principles — Best Practices for Electronic Document Production coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that enforces it.

The Sedona Principles — Best Practices for Electronic Document Production

# The Sedona Principles — Best Practices for Electronic Document Production — 100% of in-scope requirements covered.

3 requirements · 2 in scope (2 enforced) · 1 out-of-scope (outside KYE™’s authority layer). The 100% is weighted over the in-scope base.

**Source:** The Sedona Principles, Third Edition (The Sedona Conference, 2018) are the leading consensus best-practice commentary on the production of electronically stored information in US litigation. Principle 6 holds that responding parties are best situated to evaluate and select the procedures, methodologies, and technologies for preserving and producing their own ESI — placing the burden of a defensible, documented process on the producing party. KYE Protocol™ governs whether an AI-assisted production / review process may PROCEED to a consequential litigation action with a recorded, reconstructable, replay-provable process record — so the producing party can demonstrate a defensible process when challenged. KYE™ does not select the review methodology or judge whether the production is substantively complete. · **License:** The Sedona Principles are published commentary of The Sedona Conference; KYE™ registry paraphrases the relevant principle's intent and cites it for mapping purposes only — no text is reproduced.

## By category

| Category | Reqs | Enforced | Designed | Advisory | Deferred | Coverage |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Defensible, reconstructable AI-review process record | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | **100%** |
| Replay-provable evidence of the process when challenged | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | **100%** |
| Methodology selection & substantive production completeness | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | **0%** |

## Every requirement → the KYE™ artefact that enforces it

| ID | Title | Status | KYE™ enforcement |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `sedona-principles.principle6-defensible-process` | An AI-assisted review / production proceeds only with a recorded, reconstructable defensible-process record | enforced | **audit\_events**: `kye.purpose.request.v1`, `kye.purpose.admissibility.v1`, `kye.evidence.decision_map.v1` **engines**: `internal`, `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:litigation-evidence-discovery` **dictionaries**: `internal` **constitution\_refs**: `constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md` |
| `sedona-principles.replay-provable-process-evidence` | Replay-provable Evidence Pack™ demonstrating the defensible process when challenged | enforced | **audit\_events**: `kye.evidence.pack.v1`, `kye.replay.context_seal.v1`, `kye.replay.proof.v1` **engines**: `internal`, `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:litigation-evidence-discovery` **constitution\_refs**: `constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md` |
| `sedona-principles.methodology-and-completeness` | Review-methodology selection (TAR / search terms) and substantive production completeness | out-of-scope | _(no enforcement cited)_ |

Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: [Evidence Pack™](https://kyeprotocol.com/evidence-pack/) · [KYE Protocol™](https://kyeprotocol.com/).