DTM.1:4.3 - Compare results for the affected participants

Recover whose result matters, for which work and over what horizon. A.6.P.RI helps repair expressions such as “our benefit,” “the system is safe” or “they are dependent.”

Choose a feasible comparison: continuing the present arrangement, using an available alternative, or changing one contribution. For each materially affected participant, retain useful output, required expenditure, exposure to failure and capacity for later work where those differences change the choice. The relevant domain methods define and measure these quantities.

A difference is meaningful only against that comparison. If a provider bears a conversion cost in one arrangement and the customer bears it in another, keep both allocations visible. Do not place the cost in an unnamed total and then attribute the resulting advantage to each participant.

When consequences remain unknown, identify the missing relation that changes the conclusion. It may be sufficient to proceed under two conditional accounts. A new investigation is useful only if its result could improve the receiving decision enough to warrant its cost.