COLLABORATIVE
DECISION SYSTEM

Any participant can raise an issue — a grievance, a proposal, a resource request, an FRS recommendation. The issue is formally logged with proposer, context, affected systems, and urgency classification.

Raw issues are parsed into a structured format — problem statement, relevant constraints, decision type, and stakeholder mapping — so deliberation has a shared starting point.

Relevant data from OAD, ITC, COS, and FRS is automatically surfaced as context for deliberation. Decision-makers see ecological flags, credit availability, production capacity, and prior decisions on the same topic.

Proposed decisions are checked against hard architectural constraints — ITC non-transferability, ecological limits, federation agreements — before deliberation begins. Constraint violations are flagged, not blocked.

The structured deliberation interface — asynchronous or synchronous, with facilitation tools, timed speaking turns, and explicit space for dissenting positions that will be logged regardless of outcome.

Consensus is calculated using a configurable weighting model that accounts for participation level and domain relevance. Simple majority is the floor, not the target. The system surfaces near-consensus and genuine divisions clearly.

Every decision, with full deliberation record, is written to an append-only tamper-evident log. Nothing is deleted. Reversals are logged as new decisions referencing the original.

Ratified decisions are automatically dispatched as DecisionPackets to the relevant systems — OAD for design approvals, COS for production mandates, ITC for access rule changes, FRS for monitoring adjustments.

Unresolvable conflicts, constitutional questions, and decisions requiring direct community assembly are escalated to structured human resolution processes outside the automated system.

After implementation, outcomes are assessed against stated intentions. FRS provides the performance data. Review findings are fed back to CDS as new issues, completing the governance loop.