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Snowflake Stable-Surface Waiver Registry

Purpose​

This registry records any exception that allows the Snowflake stable supported surface to proceed while a specific criterion in snowflake-ga-criteria.md is not fully met.

Waivers are scoped, auditable and temporary. They do not allow silent semantic downgrades.

Waiver Rules​

A waiver is allowed only when all of the following hold:

  • the gap is not a core platform-isolation, secret-handling or data-loss control;
  • the affected behavior is documented in user-facing docs and release notes;
  • the adapter returns SUPPORTED_WITH_WARNINGS, REVIEW_REQUIRED or UNSUPPORTED instead of claiming full support;
  • a remediation owner and target date are recorded;
  • the waiver expires within 90 days unless renewed as a new registry row.

Waivers are forbidden for:

  • core importing Snowflake client SDKs;
  • plaintext secrets in rendered artifacts;
  • write modes that lose rows or report incorrect successful metrics;
  • failures that skip ctrl_ingestion_errors and failed-run evidence when the evidence store is reachable;
  • governance behavior that grants broader access than the contract declares without explicit review.

Registry​

IDCriterionStateRecordedExpiresOwner

No waivers are currently recorded.

Active Waivers​

No active waivers.

The remaining Snowflake production-certification boundaries are not waivers because they are not claimed as stable behavior. They remain explicit SUPPORTED_WITH_WARNINGS or REVIEW_REQUIRED boundaries in snowflake-ga-criteria.md and snowflake-stabilization-matrix.md.

Expired Waivers​

No expired waivers.

Revoked Waivers​

No revoked waivers.