DOCA.6:4.6 - Return a discriminating question and reconsider locally

Name the next question whose plausible answers would retain, narrow, reject, or open a particular opportunity or path. Use the declared receiving policy to consider relevant value, inquiry burden, delay, protections, and uncertainty. Reuse a sufficient partial comparison; no complete ranking is needed merely to state the question.

If the question becomes “which candidate or probe should we choose now?”, return to the actual local choice or PSD decision-support question. A proposed probe needs its own feasibility, exposure, authority, and execution basis before it becomes recommended or performed. An information request is not that authorization.

Revisit at the declared trigger, including a material source, use, horizon, resource, support, permission, or evidence change. Use DOCA.8 to update the smallest affected opportunity and its dependent paths or advice. Preserve unaffected candidates and source lineage; retire a retention claim when its later use disappears, its cost no longer fits, or a qualified result defeats its enabling connection.

Recognition and assurance. A usable account shows what is retained, why, for how long, under which conditions, and what changes next. Whether a path is reachable, a step causes a later possibility, or a retained option will remain obtainable requires the appropriate domain evidence, DOCA.5 qualification, and actual resource or authority basis. The clarity of the account supplies none of those assurances.