07 — Gaps and open questions
1. Before launch — blocking
| # | Item | Why |
|---|---|---|
| B1 | Solicitor review of the publishing rule and entry one | The source's own flag: "review costs less before than after" |
| B2 | The selection rule, published | "A founder-led list is a founder's grievances until the selection rule is published" |
| B3 | The refusal interval, published | It defines a refusal; per-case choice is indefensible |
| B4 | The template, versioned | Entries quote it by version; it must exist before ask one |
| B5 | Authority-capture workflow | Representative SARs need evidence of authority; "doing it badly is how the mechanism gets refused" |
2. Open questions — carried from the sources plus three new
| # | Question | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Does a published policy page count as an answer even when it means a company answers "without ever knowing anything"? | The source's own sharpest tension on the reflexivity fix. Recommendation: yes, recorded as "answered by policy" — a distinguishable row type |
| Q2 | Card-issuer lever: in or out of the perimeter? | Advice, then decide. Launch without |
| Q3 | How is the sign-up flow evidenced retrospectively? | Archives are the only source; a /method/ page on flow archiving is worth writing early — it is also what makes the exit measurements re-runnable |
| Q4 | What happens at spring 2027? | Planned, not absorbed: the standard's delta table (01__ §3) is the transition artefact |
| Q5 | Who owns the dated legal pages? | Named owner per page, or the pages do not ship |
| Q6 | When does the register move to a non-profit? | "Easier before there is a register than after" — the vault design makes it a re-point; the decision is still a decision |
| Q7 (new) | Jurisdiction signalling — the levers are UK; the standard and the exit measurements travel. Does the site present as UK-first with a general standard, or general-first with UK levers? | Unanswered from the naming conversation. Recommendation: general standard, clearly-badged UK law section — the register schema is jurisdiction-free |
| Q8 (new) | Does the founder's own ten-company ask list pass the selection rule he publishes? | The first test of B2, and worth stating that it was applied |
| Q9 (new) | Where do international clause-3 measurements go? | Exit paths are measurable anywhere; the register question is UK-flavoured. Decide whether /exit/ is global from day one |
3. Honest gaps
- No adopters at launch. The standard's adopters list starts empty; publish it empty rather than seeding it with sympathetic friends.
- The service half is one client deep, and he built it. The unrepresentative-sample warning is in the source; the second and third clients are chosen for being unlike him.
- The inconsistency test needs a method page — reading marketing "carefully enough to be sure" is slow and should be documented as a repeatable procedure before it is run in anger.
- The exit measurements age fastest — "a flow can change overnight" — so the re-run cadence is part of the method, not an afterthought.
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