The technical and policy teams need to discuss data embargo in order to provide guidance to the tech team on one or more likely use cases for embargo and the expectations of how embargoed data will be accessed.

This needs to go on the agenda for the Oct 28 2015 meeting.

Is an embargoed record "locked"? Is the embargo "owned" by a specific user? If the answers to both questions are yes, then embargo fits perfectly as a stage (that is: a workflow stage). Embargo is not permanent, which is one of the primary ways it differs from delete.