# Decision Change Record

**Version:** 3.0.6  
**Last reviewed UTC:** 2026-06-20T00:41:09Z  
**Maturity:** Reviewed  
**Intended user:** Decision owner, governance editor, participation facilitator, reviewer, or maintainer documenting how a proposal changed after participation.

## Purpose

Use this record after a participation cycle and before claiming that input changed a decision. Compare the proposal before participation with the final decision, name adopted and non-adopted requests, retain material dissent, identify the implementation owner and target date, and preserve correction and exit impacts.

A decision change record is a trace, not certification. It does not prove that the process was representative, fair, democratic, lawful, accessible, or correctly implemented.

## Editable record

```json
{
  "schema_version": "3.0.6",
  "id": "[record id]",
  "version": "3.0.6",
  "last_reviewed_utc": "2026-06-20T00:41:09Z",
  "artifact_maturity": "reviewed",
  "process_id": "[participation process id]",
  "process_title": "[title]",
  "decision_scope": "[scope that was actually open]",
  "influence_level": "[information|consultation|deliberation|co_decision|delegated_or_binding]",
  "decision_owner": "[accountable authority]",
  "proposal_before_participation": {
    "proposal_version": "[version]",
    "summary": "[before summary]",
    "open_levers": ["[lever]"],
    "fixed_constraints": ["[constraint]"],
    "evidence_references": ["[source]" ]
  },
  "final_decision": {
    "decision_summary": "[final decision]",
    "decision_utc": "[UTC]",
    "effective_utc": "[UTC]",
    "decision_authority": "[authority and scope]",
    "public_record_url": "[URL]"
  },
  "adopted_requests": [{"contribution_id":"[id]","request_summary":"[request]","adoption_status":"[accepted|partially_accepted]","resulting_change":"[change]","evidence_references":["[source]"]}],
  "non_adopted_requests": [{"contribution_id":"[id]","request_summary":"[request]","disposition":"[deferred|rejected|out_of_scope|duplicate|needs_review|no_op|superseded]","reason":"[reason]","future_review_trigger":"[trigger]"}],
  "dissent_retained": [{"dissent_id":"[id]","summary":"[dissent]","unresolved_risk":"[risk]","publication_url":"[URL]"}],
  "change_summary": ["[change]"],
  "unchanged_elements": ["[unchanged item]"],
  "implementation_owner": "[role]",
  "target_implementation_utc": "[UTC]",
  "actual_implementation_status": "[not_started|in_progress|completed|partially_completed|deferred|blocked|no_op|superseded]",
  "implementation_evidence_references": ["[evidence or follow-through record]"],
  "correction_history": [{"correction_id":"[id]","requested_utc":"[UTC]","issue":"[issue]","disposition":"[status]","record_change":"[change]"}],
  "exit_impact": {"affected":false,"summary":"[impact]","export_revocation_or_fork_path":"[path]"},
  "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, implementation quality, or institutional follow-through, and it does not guarantee that an organization acts on input."
}
```

## Minimum review questions

1. Can a reviewer see the proposal before participation and the final decision side by side?
2. Are accepted, partially accepted, deferred, rejected, out-of-scope, and no-op requests distinguishable?
3. Is material dissent still visible?
4. Is implementation owned by a named role with a target date and evidence path?
5. Are corrections and exit impacts preserved?

## Related files

- Human guidance: `https://vnwo.com/participation/`
- Schema: `https://vnwo.com/schemas/decision-change-record.schema.json`
- Fictional example: `https://vnwo.com/examples/decision-change-community-rule-change.json`
- Follow-through record: `https://vnwo.com/downloads/implementation-follow-through-record.md`

## Source-routing note

The implementing organization owns the proposal, decision, authority, and evidence. VNWO supplies only a static record pattern.

## 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, implementation quality, or institutional follow-through, and it does not guarantee that an organization acts on input.