DOCA.1.CHR:4.4 - Orient the complete comparison coordinate set
When a finite candidate change is current, use C.11.CRC to compare an actual or relied-on configuration S0, finite change Δ, and realizable candidate configuration S1 under the same boundary, horizon, scenarios, constraints, interactions, transition basis, evidence window, and receiving decision.
Keep four coordinate families visible:
- result coordinates: what useful results may improve, worsen, or remain unchanged;
- resource coordinates: time, attention, capital, computation, energy, materials and other consumed means;
- affected-System and distributional coordinates: consequences for other Systems, groups, services, or environments and how gains and burdens are distributed; and
- explicitly protected coordinates: values that may not be silently exchanged for a gain elsewhere.
State required authority separately as a condition for proceeding. Include the time, fees or other resources needed to obtain or maintain permission when they matter, without treating permission itself as a consumed quantity.
Do not hide one family inside another or average incomparable scales. A Pareto-improvement claim is warranted only when the declared complete set has no worsening coordinate and at least one improving coordinate under the same basis. Otherwise use only supported language such as beneficial, harmful, dominated, non-dominated, or indeterminate. None of these selects the direction.