STR.12:4.4 - Compare the warranted responses

Consider the responses that can still achieve a worthwhile result: continue unchanged, narrow scope, change timing, pause a dependent activity, stop it, or choose a different direction. Compare their consequences, displaced work, closing duties, reversibility and current constraints. A pause is not free if it loses people, access or an expiring option.

Preserve the distinction between the present conclusion and the later action. Advice that a premise has failed can finish as advice. An owner can apply an already authorized stopping rule within its scope. A change outside that scope requires the actual competent decision.

Reopen only the material contribution. A changed demand assumption may require a revised comparison under STR.9, not a new capability programme. A newly affected group can require STR.1 or STR.3 to reconsider the question. A changed method or selection rule has its own grounds; do not quietly alter the rule to protect a favoured option.

Continuing is a substantive possible result. State why the signal leaves the inspected decision adequate under its current conditions. Do not use that limited conclusion to certify branches that were not inspected.