STR.10:5.2 - Reconsidering a reserve is not spending it first

Suppose someone proposes using SensorCo’s eight protected incident days to make the original 90-day programme look closer to feasible. Removing the reserve from the arithmetic leaves 82 days of demand, still above 80, and removes the protection the case requires.

A legitimate appraisal asks what incident exposure the reserve covers, what support and response evidence justify its size, what reducing it would displace and which alternative protects the contribution more efficiently. The competent owners supply that answer and any actual amendment authority. Until a revision applies, the comparison retains all eight protected days.

This is not an instruction to preserve every reserve forever. A supported change in workload or protection can justify revision. It is an instruction to compare protection and burden without silently treating a hoped-for revision as available capacity.