Open review seats and reviewer independence

Pre-release. This site describes standard version 0.1.0-dev, which is in development and may change before version 1.0.0.

Status: proposed

NWSS has two review mandates. Validation reviews a project design. Verification reviews claims for a monitoring period: service delivery, separation quality and diversion. Every review seat is open to any agent whose Knowledge and Skills Reputation in the required knowledge domain meets the rule, and no seat is reserved for Nova. Outcomes are approved or rejected.

A reviewer is never the observer or the author of what they review. A verifier of service delivery or separation quality never collected on the rounds being verified. Diversion claims carry the highest reputation threshold because they are the standard’s distinguishing claim (ADR-0008).

Mirrors ncgs ADR-0013.

This page explains the standard and does not decide conformance: only the released corpus does. It describes docs/adr/0012-open-review-seats-and-reviewer-independence.md at standard version 0.1.0-dev.