tracked cradle to grave

English translation: From the time it's written up...

11:28 Jan 25, 2006
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
English term or phrase: tracked cradle to grave
I need help with this phrase. The whole sentence is as below:

A document classified as Company Secret or higher that is registered and tracked cradle to grave by Product Design Document Control.

What does that "tracked cradle to grave" actually mean? Thanks for all the help.
Sophia Jusoff
Malaysia
Local time: 16:02
Selected answer:From the time it's written up...
Explanation:
... to the time it's destroyed or thrown away.

Cheers!

Tânia

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Note added at 18 mins (2006-01-25 11:47:30 GMT)
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I should have said also that the document is controlled or followed by Product Design Document Control.

Cheers!
Selected response from:

Tania Marques-Cardoso
Brazil
Local time: 05:02
Grading comment
Thank you so much for all the help.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +19From the time it's written up...
Tania Marques-Cardoso
5 -3Spied on and recorded on from birth to death
Mike Delta


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -3
Spied on and recorded on from birth to death


Explanation:
Spied may be a bit strong, I chose the word deliberately to show you why the writer chose the term.

He had enough brains to realise that Brit's do no like the idea of someone knowing everything about them.
So he used bafflegab to soften the blow.

Mike Delta
Local time: 08:02

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tony M: Mike, I think here they're merely talking about document tracking, nothing to do with actual espionage!
4 mins
  -> What does the phrase ACTUALLY mean? Rather than mean in this context Dusty.

disagree  Charlesp: another stuipid comment
56 mins
  -> Thank you for your further stuipid comment Charles.

neutral  RHELLER: a document is spied on?//not sure what you mean by that; IMO, the Eng mono section should promote proper &comprehensible English - many are English learners
2 hrs
  -> Actual, rather than contextual comment Rita

disagree  Richard Benham: Documents are born and die? Another Epsilon, I'm afraid.
3 hrs
  -> Do you expect the documents to be blank Rita, or do you feel that I shoydl have said that the information in the documents is spied on Rita?
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +19
From the time it's written up...


Explanation:
... to the time it's destroyed or thrown away.

Cheers!

Tânia

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Note added at 18 mins (2006-01-25 11:47:30 GMT)
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I should have said also that the document is controlled or followed by Product Design Document Control.

Cheers!

Tania Marques-Cardoso
Brazil
Local time: 05:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you so much for all the help.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty
31 mins
  -> Thank you, Jack!

agree  Jo Macdonald
32 mins
  -> Thank you, Jo!

agree  Armorel Young: yes, a term normally applied to people has been transferred to apply to documents
1 hr
  -> Thank you, Armorel!

agree  Charlesp
1 hr
  -> Thank you, Charles!

agree  Dave Calderhead
1 hr
  -> Thank you, Dave!

agree  NancyLynn
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Nancy!

agree  Alexander Demyanov
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Alexander!

agree  RHELLER: yes, creation to destruction
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Rita!

agree  Robert Kleemaier
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Robert!

agree  LJC (X)
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Leslie!

agree  Mike Delta
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Mike!

agree  Richard Benham: Yes, I am sure our asker could work out the literal meaning! BTW I don't think "throwing away" a highly confidential document is an option.
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Richard.

agree  Can Altinbay
4 hrs
  -> Thank you, Can.

agree  Michael Barnett
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, Michael.

agree  jccantrell: Yep. They are assigned numbers and SOMEBODY is responsible for keeping track of the changes, where the copies are, if some have been destroyed, etc.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, JC!

agree  conejo
6 hrs
  -> Thank you, Conejo!

agree  Alfa Trans (X)
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, Marju!

agree  Seema Ugrankar
12 hrs
  -> Thank you, Ugrankar!

agree  Veronica Prpic Uhing
23 hrs
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