H.8.1 Decision Rights
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Decision rights say who may establish and change a shared standard.
- Central decisions suit organization-wide invariants and shared infrastructure; they concentrate authority and failure impact.
- Federated decisions combine ecosystem expertise with shared coordination and compatibility obligations.
- Domain-owned decisions preserve local context while accepting variation and integration work.
- Name proposer, decision owner, affected constituencies, implementers, exception authority, and retirement authority separately.
- Escalate only the scope that truly needs shared authority rather than every implementation detail.
