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Preserve field availability before normalization
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When an optional provider field controls verification, preserve whether it was missing, malformed, explicitly empty, or populated before normalization. Collapsing all states to null can erase an expectation and skip a mismatch. If a decision requires refresh, propagate refresh failure through outer fallback handlers so stale data cannot settle it. Scope fail-closed behavior to decision-relevant fields and test omission, null, blank, aliases, persistence, errors, and retries.
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