Status: Exploratory. This register is authoritative for unresolved decisions in the Generative Governance research dossier. Resolving an entry does not change GSM until the outcome passes the Change Proposal process.

Status vocabulary

These statuses are not research record roles.

Status	Meaning
Active	On the critical path; a next test is identified.
Parked	Listed, but not on the current test path.
Hypothesis	Bound to a numbered H- record under investigation.
Proposed	A GSM Change Proposal carries the decision.
Accepted	The proposal was accepted for normative integration.
Rejected	The candidate change will not proceed.
Merged	Closed into another decision ID.

Critical path

ID	Status	Next test	Bound record
GOV-D05	Active	CASE-01	H-GC-03
GOV-D06	Active	CASE-02	H-DP-02
GOV-D17	Active	CASE-01	F-GC-02
GOV-D31	Hypothesis	CASE-03	H-CM-02
GOV-D32	Active	Dimensional example before any Quality formula	none yet
GOV-D35	Active	CASE-03; H-CM-03 remains open	H-CM-03
GOV-D36	Active	CASE-02	F-DP-01

Decisions

ID	Status	Decision required	Primary chapter	Next test
GOV-D01	Parked	Is reflexive operability constitutive of Structure or emergent Systemness?	Causal Model	After GOV-D20
GOV-D02	Parked	Does DNA scope or target a Definition, exact Ascription, class, selector, or combination?	DNA Production	After GOV-D36
GOV-D03	Parked	Are Directive-to-Structure and Norm-to-Mechanism mandatory, default, or merely valid specializations?	DNA Production	After GOV-D05
GOV-D04	Parked	Does producer identity name a Mechanism Definition, exact Ascription, Rule evaluation, execution occurrence, Effector, or combination?	DNA Production	After GOV-D36
GOV-D05	Active	Is Compliance a distinct role or a phase of Regulation or Supervision?	Governance Chain	CASE-01; H-GC-03 unsettled
GOV-D06	Active	May a DNA producer or Operator only emit candidates, or may DNA delegate lifecycle authority?	DNA Production	CASE-02; H-DP-02 survives emission-only
GOV-D07	Parked	What distinguishes constitutive parenthood from ordinary governance?	Governance Chain	After GOV-D17
GOV-D08	Parked	Are purpose and function unique addresses, selectors, or teleological labels?	Causal Model	Purpose-as-identity clash test
GOV-D09	Parked	Is Measure definition-plane, description-plane, or dual-use?	Causal Model	After GOV-D31
GOV-D10	Merged	Form of Quality. Merged into GOV-D32.	Causal Model	See GOV-D32
GOV-D11	Parked	Must DNA carry explicit rationale, or may rationale be separately governed?	Causal Model	After GOV-D35
GOV-D12	Parked	Which part of a Structure is constituted by a Directive?	Governance Chain	After GOV-D17
GOV-D13	Parked	Can one DNA Ascription name multiple explicit targets?	DNA Production	After GOV-D02
GOV-D14	Parked	How are Directive and Norm targets linked within one governance scope?	DNA Production	After GOV-D02
GOV-D15	Parked	What prevents vicious self-governance cycles?	DNA Production	After GOV-D06
GOV-D16	Parked	May one Mechanism derive several governance-chain roles?	Governance Chain	After GOV-D05
GOV-D17	Active	Which governance-chain findings belong to normative conformance?	Governance Chain	CASE-01; F-GC-02 rejects missing-role-as-conformance
GOV-D18	Parked	How are fan-out, aggregation, delay, uncertainty, and partial failure represented?	Causal Model	After H-CM-01
GOV-D19	Parked	Does Compliance produce a governed target Ascription, conformity Ascription, Measure, or finding?	Governance Chain	After GOV-D05
GOV-D20	Parked	Must external Compliance be internalized through an owner-local Mechanism?	Governance Chain	Autopoiesis clash test
GOV-D21	Parked	Which production and Compliance provenance references are normative?	Governance Chain	After GOV-D04
GOV-D22	Parked	Are Directive and Norm identity, ownership, scope, activation, and operationalization one relation or several?	Governance Chain	After GOV-D36
GOV-D23	Parked	What constitutes a Structure beyond purpose and Mechanisms, and should Structure remain a primitive?	Causal Model	After GOV-D08
GOV-D24	Parked	Must a Mechanism belong to exactly one Structure, may it belong to several, or may it be structureless?	Causal Model	After H-CM-06
GOV-D25	Parked	Is Impact an event, state change, evaluation, or governed relation among them?	Causal Model	After GOV-D31
GOV-D26	Parked	Are Value, Adverse condition, and Cost subtypes of Impact, consequences, or evaluations over Impact?	Causal Model	After GOV-D31
GOV-D27	Parked	Does Risk include beneficial uncertainty or only adverse possible impacts?	Causal Model	After GOV-D31
GOV-D28	Parked	How are affected subject, perspective, delay, attribution, and uncertainty represented?	Causal Model	After CASE-03 follow-on
GOV-D29	Parked	How does Need relate purpose, condition, and required transformation?	Causal Model	After H-CM-03; CASE-03 does not close Need
GOV-D30	Merged	Classification inventory. Reclassified as method item GOV-M01.	Causal Model	See GOV-M01
GOV-D31	Hypothesis	Can Impact serve as a common referent for Value, Cost, Risk, Adverse condition, Quality, and viability without a subtype hierarchy?	Causal Model	CASE-03; H-CM-02 survives
GOV-D32	Active	Under what dimensional, monotonic, normalization, uncertainty, and non-compensation rules could any formal Quality relation be valid? No product formula is in use until a dimensional example exists.	Causal Model	Dimensional example
GOV-D33	Merged	Placement criteria. Reclassified as method item GOV-M02.	Program charter	See GOV-M02
GOV-D34	Merged	Evidence predicates. Reclassified as method item GOV-M03.	Causal Model	See GOV-M03
GOV-D35	Active	How do condition, evidence, Need, Requirement, Directive, and Norm differ without collapsing descriptive, evaluative, design, and governance claims?	Causal Model	CASE-03; H-CM-03 / SH-15 remain open
GOV-D36	Active	What constitutes a DNA production occurrence, and how do emitted content, a DNA candidate, its Definition and Ascription, and lifecycle transitions relate?	DNA Production	CASE-02; F-DP-01
GOV-D37	Merged	Producer lifecycle actions. Merged into GOV-D06.	DNA Production	See GOV-D06
GOV-D38	Parked	May generic Governance, Regulation, or Supervision Mechanisms be auto-derived from information already present in GSM, and how is that derivation distinguished from DNA production and activation?	Governance Chain	After H-GC-10; H-GC-12

Method items

These are program-method questions, not object-level GSM forks.

ID	Status	Question	Next test
GOV-M01	Parked	Which relation predicates survive cases, and do any former family names remain useful?	After H-CM-01
GOV-M02	Parked	How are the published placement gates applied to a specific finding?	First candidate outcome
GOV-M03	Parked	What evidence distinguishes defined possibility, observed occurrence, inference, evaluation, and warranted attribution?	Bound to H-CM-01

Resolution requirements

Each resolved decision must record:

1. selected outcome and rejected alternatives;
2. systemics rationale;
3. baseline evidence, observations, counterexamples, and falsifiers;
4. selected placement in core GSM, the GSM ontology, or a derived view;
5. selected normative semantics and affected GSM artifacts;
6. conformance requirements added, changed, or withdrawn;
7. dependencies on other decision IDs.