PSD.2:4 - Solution
Recover participants and concerns relative to one bounded inquiry and receiving use. Start from possible consequence bearers, not only invitees. Keep participation, affected-System status, concern attribution, representation, and decision authority as separate claims. Return the smallest account that can change the next problem-structuring or decision-support result.
PSD.2:4.1 - Bind the account to one inquiry
Name the PSD.1 bounded engagement question, or state the same subject, recipient, receiving decision or Work, horizon, and authority boundary directly. Do not import a participation account from another decision merely because the organization, place, or topic is similar. If the engagement identity or receiving use is missing, return that gap to PSD.1.
Ask: whose situation, contribution, duty, interest, or possible change could make the current return materially different? This question bounds discovery without assuming that every discovered bearer must attend.
PSD.2:4.2 - Discover affected Systems before equating them with participants
Use the smallest A.1.CSD pass that can challenge the current boundary. Name the focus, configuration, scope, horizon, receiver, examined possibilities, actual direct relations, modal paths, bearers, possible changed characteristics, evidence, uncertainty, and reopen trigger at the grain the inquiry needs.
An affected System may be a participant, be represented by a participant, or have no feasible participation channel. Participation can reveal a bearer or path, but it does not prove System construction, a relation occurrence, a consequence, or authority. Use the direct relation pattern for an obtaining claim. Open A.6.REL only when later work must distinguish this occurrence from another occurrence of the same relation kind, including another episode with the same participants; a readable current relation assertion is otherwise enough.
PSD.2:4.3 - Recover participation positions and conditions
For each materially distinct contribution, record who contributes, the basis of involvement, what knowledge or experience is being offered, the participation channel, and any condition that limits access or reliance. Name missing or unsafe participation explicitly.
Recover a representative relation only when the current use relies on it. State whom the participant represents, for what question, under which basis, and with what limit. Keep self-report, specialist evidence, advocacy, delegated representation, duty, interest, sponsorship, facilitation, and choice authority distinct.
PSD.2:4.4 - Attribute concerns, duties, interests, and dissent
Record each material concern in ordinary language with its holder or source and the consequence or receiving-use difference it could make.
Establish what the concern is about before joining it to another concern under the same word. Ask what is being done or changed, where that object or work begins and ends, and what would count as the relevant result. Participants saying “the trip is complete” may mean that the remote task is finished, the traveler has returned, or the expense case is closed. Those are different objects with different completion conditions. Recover how they are related and which result each participant needs. In other cases, participants do concern themselves with the same object: duration and cost can describe the same identified journey. Keep that common reference when it fits.
Use this recovery where ambiguity changes the inquiry; ordinary unambiguous concerns need no separate object inventory. Also identify who or what may bear the consequences; that bearer can be the object being discussed or another System. Distinguish:
- reported experience from externally supported evidence;
- duty from preference or interest;
- individual concern from a represented constituency claim;
- disagreement from an unresolved factual question; and
- absence of evidence from evidence of absence.
Keep minority and unresolved positions visible. Facilitation may make contributions usable; it does not establish consensus, truth, priority, permission, or authority.
PSD.2:4.5 - Return the smallest explicit account
| Result position | Required content |
|---|---|
| bounded inquiry | Subject, receiving use, horizon, recipient, and retained choice owner. |
| current participation | Participants, contribution bases, channels, and material participation conditions. |
| consequence bearers | Actual Systems or intended referents, supported relations or modal paths, possible changes, evidence, and uncertainty. |
| concerns and positions | Attributed concerns, duties, interests, agreements, dissent, and unresolved questions; the objects and relations needed to understand materially ambiguous terms. |
| representation | Any relied-upon representative relation and its scope; otherwise the explicit gap. |
| material absences | Missing participants, bearers, concerns, channels, or assurance that can change the inquiry. |
| next use and reopen | Which formulation, scope, facilitation, value, or later result consumes the account, and what observation reopens it. |
Stop when the account is adequate for the named next use, not when every possible participant has been contacted. If a missing participant or concern can reverse that use, return the gap, narrow the claim, request the direct result, or abstain.
PSD.2:4.6 - Use the account without making it decide
Pass materially different concerns into PSD.3, boundary challenges into PSD.4, participation conditions into PSD.7, value inputs into PSD.9, and participation-related interference into PSD.16 when it obstructs the engagement result. Inclusion in the account does not settle a formulation, priority, model, alternative, recommendation, or later choice.
Reopen locally when a new bearer, consequence path, participant, concern, duty, interest, representation basis, dissent, participation condition, receiving use, horizon, or authority relation can change a dependent result.
PSD.2:4.7 - What changes in practice
The practitioner stops using an invitation list as the social boundary of the problem. They can show who and what may be affected, who contributed under which conditions, whose concerns are attributed rather than generalized, what remains missing, and exactly which next result could change.