# Removal Authority

> A formal definition of the lifetime axis that states who may take content out, whether nobody at any point, its writer, the party that discharged it, or the mechanism that regenerates it.

Record: `lexicon:removal-authority`
Kind: artifact
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-removal-authority

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Mutability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/mutability.md) and before [Write Scope](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/write-scope.md).

## Category

- [Coordination Surfaces](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/coordination-surfaces.md)

## Required by

- [Independent Lifetime Axes](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/independent-lifetime-axes.md)

## Linked from

- [Coordination Surfaces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-coordination-surfaces.md)
- [Coordination Surfaces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-coordination-surfaces.md)

## Evidence in the code

- [models/coordination.model.md](https://banes-lab.com/source/coordination/models/coordination.model.md.md)