Society · Governance
Mandatune
Revisit a mandate when the circumstances it was granted under change
Definition
Mechanism
A mandate is a Permission granted for a purpose under stated circumstances, and it records those circumstances. When one of them changes materially, the mandate is revisited with those who granted it before it is used again; the initial support is not treated as standing permission under the new conditions.
Invariants
- The mandate records the circumstances it was granted under.
- A material change in a recorded circumstance triggers a revisit before the mandate is used again.
Risks
Failure modes
Stale mandate
authority granted under old conditions is used under new ones.
Revisit churn
trivial changes trigger constant re-authorisation.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Authorization grant
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference