Reason for being · The refusal test · Element
Hypothetical refusals
Things the organisation would decline, stated in advance.
The part
What it is
Stating a refusal before it is tested is cheap and still useful — it commits the organisation publicly enough that reversing costs something.
The test of a good hypothetical is that a reasonable colleague could disagree with it.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
Confidence
A low-confidence refusal is a known weak point rather than a commitment.
Confidence shared type