RMP.1:0 - Use This When

Use this pattern when a practitioner receives a request to research an issue and needs to decide whether existing knowledge is enough or a new study is needed. Begin with the question, its intended use and the available material. Use a suitable existing source answer, or prepare one through §4.3, and stop when it is sufficient. If the request belongs to routine professional work, use §4.4 to identify the needed result and who can supply it. Produce a ResearchQuestionBrief only when all four research-membership conditions pass.

Recognition cues include a favored answer looking for support, a request for “more data,” a surprising observation, a test whose relation to field use is disputed, a literature search that may already be sufficient, or a question that survives routine recovery. These cues justify opening the boundary question; they do not establish research. Affiliation, job title, grant, venue, publication plan, tool choice, or information collection establishes none of the four conditions.

The practical gain is an answer from existing knowledge or a research question that states what remains to be learned and when enough has been learned. Use RMP.2 only after a compatible ResearchQuestionBrief and qualified current frame exist and the design disposition is still open.

Do not use RMP.1 to select a research design, prescribe an instrument, authorize access or risk, decide an engineering or policy action, or repair a reusable professional Method. Those decisions remain with their direct owners.