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SYSE.36:10 - Rationale

A reliability objective is useful only when its measurement represents the service result people depend on and its policy changes an available decision. Defining meaning before instrumentation protects that connection. Separating subjects prevents success in an enabling service from being mistaken for success in the work it enables.