personnel responsible
163608·updated Sep 14, 2026This phrase is compositional rather than a term of art. It is ordinary English — a noun ("personnel") followed by a participial phrase ("responsible for [some function or asset]") — used throughout information security, privacy, and compliance documents to point to whichever individuals or roles hold accountability for a named control, system, or program. Its referent shifts entirely with context: it can denote a CISO, a site manager, an ISSO, a compliance owner, or any other role the surrounding text places in an accountable position. No authority document gives it a fixed, bounded definition independent of that surrounding context.
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personnelthe sentence this term was read in
generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: compositional.
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This phrase is compositional rather than a term of art. It is ordinary English — a noun ("personnel") followed by a participial phrase ("responsible for [some function or asset]") — used throughout information security, privacy, and compliance documents to point to whichever individuals or roles hold accountability for a named control, system, or program. Its referent shifts entirely with context: it can denote a CISO, a site manager, an ISSO, a compliance owner, or any other role the surrounding text places in an accountable position. No authority document gives it a fixed, bounded definition independent of that surrounding context.
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Proposed during multiword review of this document in the CKI mapping queue.
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- plural
- personnel responsibles
- possessive
- personnel responsible's
- pluralpossessive
- personnel responsibles'
Framework definitions
- §1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in NIST SP 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- This phrase is compositional rather than a term of art. It is ordinary English — a noun ("personnel") followed by a participial phrase ("responsible for [some function or asset]") — used throughout information security, privacy, and compliance documents to point to whichever individuals or roles hold accountability for a named control, system, or program. Its referent shifts entirely with context: it can denote a CISO, a site manager, an ISSO, a compliance owner, or any other role the surrounding text places in an accountable position. No authority document gives it a fixed, bounded definition independent of that surrounding context.Drafted by the propose-term web lookup (PD-018); a curator confirms or replaces it.