# Contribution Disposition Ledger

**Version:** 3.0.6  
**Last reviewed UTC:** 2026-06-20T00:41:09Z  
**Maturity:** Reviewed  
**Intended user:** Decision owner, public-comment reviewer, research team, community facilitator, red-team lead, or governance maintainer publishing what happened to contributions.

## Purpose

Use this ledger to give each in-scope contribution a visible status, rationale, responsible owner, and resulting change or non-change. Supported states are `accepted`, `partially_accepted`, `deferred`, `rejected`, `duplicate`, `out_of_scope`, and `needs_review`.

A disposition is not a judgment about the worth of a person or community. It is a bounded record of how a contribution related to a declared decision scope. Rejection, deferral, or out-of-scope status must not be used to erase material dissent or retaliate against a contributor.

## Editable ledger

```json
{
  "schema_version": "3.0.6",
  "id": "[ledger id]",
  "version": "3.0.6",
  "last_reviewed_utc": "2026-06-20T00:41:09Z",
  "artifact_maturity": "reviewed",
  "process_id": "[related participation process]",
  "process_title": "[title]",
  "decision_scope": "[bounded decision]",
  "influence_level": "[information|consultation|deliberation|co_decision|delegated_or_binding]",
  "decision_owner": "[owner]",
  "entries": [
    {
      "contribution_id": "[id]",
      "contribution_summary": "[non-identifying summary]",
      "source_group_or_role": "[optional non-identifying label]",
      "evidence_references": [],
      "material_dissent": false,
      "disposition": "[accepted|partially_accepted|deferred|rejected|duplicate|out_of_scope|needs_review]",
      "rationale": "[reason tied to scope, evidence, authority, or constraint]",
      "resulting_change_or_non_change": "[what changed or did not change]",
      "response_owner": "[owner]",
      "response_utc": "2026-06-20T00:41:09Z",
      "correction_status": "[not_requested|requested|corrected|disputed|closed]"
    }
  ],
  "unresolved_items": [],
  "dissent_report_links": [],
  "completion_notes": "[known missing responses or limits]",
  "correction_or_appeal_path": "[path]",
  "non_retaliation_statement": "[statement]",
  "source_domain": "[source domain]",
  "claim_boundary_note": "VNWO provides a static documentation pattern. It does not recruit participants, collect submissions, verify identity or representation, validate consent, certify fairness, democracy, accessibility, legal sufficiency, or implementation quality, and it does not guarantee that an institution acts on input."
}
```

## Disposition guidance

- **Accepted:** adopted substantially as proposed.
- **Partially accepted:** adopted with a narrower scope, altered safeguard, or different implementation.
- **Deferred:** not decided yet; publish the trigger, owner, and next review point.
- **Rejected:** not adopted; publish a reason and preserve material dissent.
- **Duplicate:** already addressed by another contribution; link the related entry.
- **Out of scope:** outside the published decision boundary; do not use this label to hide an inconvenient in-scope issue.
- **Needs review:** evidence, authority, safety, privacy, or source conflict requires human review before disposition.

## Related files

- Schema: `https://vnwo.com/schemas/contribution-disposition-ledger.schema.json`
- Dataset coverage example: `https://vnwo.com/examples/contribution-disposition-dataset-coverage-review.json`
- External red-team example: `https://vnwo.com/examples/contribution-disposition-red-team-review.json`
- Public-comment example: `https://vnwo.com/examples/contribution-disposition-public-comment.json`
- Minority and dissent report: `https://vnwo.com/downloads/minority-dissent-report.md`

## Source-routing note

Name the implementing organization and source domain for every imported rule, standard, or decision. Use no-op or human review when authority, evidence, participation scope, or representation claims are ambiguous.

## Claim boundary

VNWO provides a static documentation pattern. It does not recruit participants, collect submissions, verify identity or representation, validate consent, certify fairness, democracy, accessibility, legal sufficiency, or implementation quality, and it does not guarantee that an institution acts on input.