Trade-offs · The reasoning record · Element
The authority
Who made the exclusion, and at what level.
The part
What it is
An exclusion made by one function binds less than one made at board level, and knowing which is which prevents a lot of wasted argument.
It also identifies who has to be involved to reverse 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.
The other elements in the reasoning record
The argument
The reasoning as it stood when the exclusion was made.
LearnThe dissent
The case against, as it was put at the time.
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