# Minority and Dissent Report

**Version:** 3.0.6  
**Last reviewed UTC:** 2026-06-20T00:41:09Z  
**Maturity:** Reviewed  
**Intended user:** Participants, facilitators, decision owners, auditors, community stewards, or reviewers preserving material disagreement without unnecessary identity exposure.

## Purpose

Use this report when a material disagreement should remain visible after a summary, vote, consultation, red-team review, or governance decision. The report preserves the substance of dissent, evidence, unresolved questions, requested remedies, and the decision owner's response without requiring public identity disclosure.

A minority report does not prove that a dissenting view is correct or representative. Its purpose is to prevent false consensus and keep review, correction, and future reconsideration possible.

## Editable report

```json
{
  "schema_version": "3.0.6",
  "id": "[report id]",
  "version": "3.0.6",
  "last_reviewed_utc": "2026-06-20T00:41:09Z",
  "artifact_maturity": "reviewed",
  "process_id": "[related process]",
  "report_title": "[title]",
  "decision_scope": "[decision]",
  "privacy_and_attribution_posture": "[anonymous, pseudonymous, group-attributed, or named by consent]",
  "representation_caveat": "[what the report does and does not represent]",
  "areas_of_agreement": [],
  "dissent_points": [
    {
      "dissent_id": "[id]",
      "summary": "[substantive disagreement]",
      "evidence_references": [],
      "requested_remedy_or_condition": "[request]",
      "decision_owner_response": "[response]",
      "unresolved": true,
      "future_review_trigger": "[trigger]"
    }
  ],
  "publication_limits": "[what was withheld to protect privacy, safety, or legal obligations]",
  "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."
}
```

## Review rules

- Summarize the argument, not the identity of the person making it.
- Publish evidence references where safe and lawful.
- Distinguish disagreement about facts, values, authority, risk tolerance, and remedy.
- Record the decision owner's response without rewriting the dissent into agreement.
- Keep unresolved items and future review triggers explicit.
- Do not infer representativeness from the number of signers or comments.

## Related files

- Schema: `https://vnwo.com/schemas/minority-dissent-report.schema.json`
- External red-team example: `https://vnwo.com/examples/minority-dissent-red-team-report.json`
- Participation guidance: `https://vnwo.com/participation/`
- Contribution disposition ledger: `https://vnwo.com/downloads/contribution-disposition-ledger.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.