APP-DOCA-03 — Unlike subjects, exact recipients, and an anti-case
The common opportunity question does not create one development mechanism. Each branch below can enter construction at a missing contribution. Advice additionally needs an actual recipient, distinct advising performer and adequate service terms.
Community and governance
A professional maintenance community wants more reliable transfer of incident experience between participating groups. Its named coordination circle receives an inquiry, under its established limited remit. DOCA can construct possibilities such as changed examples, contributor support, review practice or communication arrangements. Cultural and governance practices qualify participation, transmission, variant retention and intervention claims; FPF C.36 supplies its actual cultural question.
One successful workshop or published pattern does not demonstrate changed community practice. A useful first return is a bounded contribution hypothesis with its unestablished practice effect. An observation or coordination request is a further action only when its attainable contribution warrants the whole burden for this inquiry. If nobody is entitled to receive or act on the requested community-wide advice, return that recipient or authority gap. Do not invent community consent from a meeting attendance list.
AI/model or composite arrangement
A service team is the recipient of an inquiry about a named AI-assisted review configuration. The development subject is the specified model, data, scaffold, tools, code, oversight and operating arrangement—not an assumed human-like learner. DOCA can contrast parameter, data, scaffold, tool, evaluation, oversight and non-AI support changes.
The first useful result is a contribution-bearing configuration or an exact AI/engineering evaluation gap. The direct practices own performance, safety, security, data access and operational evidence. A result for configuration A does not qualify configuration B because the provider or model family is the same. Human curriculum, motivation, cognitive-load and transfer mechanisms do not transfer by analogy.
The team’s authorized operational owner retains deployment or probe choice. AI helping to draft the advice invokes the adviser’s own review and information-use obligations; it does not fill the developing subject’s evaluation gap.
Engineered platform or facility
A laboratory-platform owner asks which change could improve access to a shared instrument without degrading calibration or safety. DOCA bounds the facility configuration, receiving experiments, horizon, users, downtime, calibration and resource protections. Directions may involve scheduling, support, interfaces, a component change or a separate provider.
The smallest result may be a qualified support opportunity or a conditional transition. Systems/Platform Engineering supplies architecture and realization; operations, domain measurement and safety practices supply their direct results. A changed interface may make an existing instrument capability more usable; any claimed new measuring capability still needs its own qualification. Fewer support calls do not prove preserved measurement quality. Missing calibration or safety evidence blocks the dependent use, not every independent facility improvement.
Research programme or body of knowledge
An actual research lead receives a question about the next contribution to a reproducibility programme. The subject is the specified research arrangement or body of knowledge, and the intended contribution might be a replicated result, corrected claim, discriminating experiment or reusable analysis.
DOCA can construct and retain those opportunities under a stated horizon and burden. Research and evidence practices own the criticism, reproducibility, formalization, empirical result and inference. A sequence of pattern contributions is prospective guidance, not completed research or a capability finding. If an earlier report is corrected, DOCA.8 follows its actual receiving use; A.10.1 applies when several affected receivers must be discovered. Return the precise evidence question or supported epistemic contribution.
Non-cultural population or lineage
In this evolutionary research account, the population has no population-local advice recipient or chooser. DOCA abstains from advice to it. Variation, reproduction, selection, persistence and lineage remain the direct subject of the relevant scientific practices, not a human programme in another vocabulary.
A researcher who asks whether to change an experiment or conservation intervention is a different case. The researcher or authorized organization is the recipient; the population remains an affected subject. Its evidence, welfare/protection conditions, governance and intervention authority must be qualified by their actual owners.
What the contrast preserves
Across these uses, keep the identified subject, receiving contribution, horizon, protections, source limits and first useful return. Do not transfer a person’s mastery reading, a team’s authority, an AI benchmark, a facility’s calibration or a research claim into another branch without its qualified receiving basis. When the necessary recipient, meaning, permission or evidence is missing, the useful result can be an exact request, narrower claim or abstention.