risk-nexus/workplans/RISK-WP-0002-publication-handover.md

id	type	title	domain	repo	status	owner	topic_slug	created	updated	depends_on_workplans
RISK-WP-0002	workplan	Hand the publishable findings to policy-nexus, and decide what else is a public document	infotech	risk-nexus	active	the-custodian	risk-nexus	2026-08-20	2026-08-20	RISK-WP-0001

RISK-WP-0002 — publication handover

Draft. Sized deliberately small: two documents are ready and the rest is a decision, not a project.

Goal

RISK-F-0001 and RISK-F-0008 carry disclosure: public and publication: pending-handover. Get them onto policy.coulomb.social under policy-nexus's existing contract, and settle whether this repo's method documents are public too.

Done means: both findings have a permanent address, publication: published, and a recorded answer on the method documents.

Why now

Six findings are embargoed with lift conditions, and RISK-F-0009 has already demonstrated that a condition can be met and the embargo still hold. When those conditions start clearing, publication will happen in a trickle rather than a batch — so the route wants to exist before it is needed, not during.

policy-nexus has been told this is coming (2026-08-20) and asked for nothing.

Tasks

T01 — Publish the two ready findings

id: RISK-WP-0002-T01
status: todo
priority: high

Follow policy-nexus's publication contract as it stands. Do not invent an address scheme: POLICY-NEXUS-WP-0001 settled addressing and permanence, and this repo is a consumer of that decision.

Open question for T01 rather than an assumption: is a finding published whole, or as a summary? RISK-F-0001 contains a full ruling, a re-grade, a review log and this register's own process defect. Some of that is register-internal work product. Decide once, here, and apply it to every later publication.

T02 — Rule on the method documents

id: RISK-WP-0002-T02
status: todo
priority: medium

docs/method/severity.md, disclosure.md, escalation.md, review.md.

The case for publishing: they say how the estate grades and holds risk, which is exactly what an outside reader needs to judge whether a published finding means anything.

The case against: the escalation rule names the operator's own thresholds, and the severity scale is a judgement instrument this repo revises freely. A published instrument invites argument about the instrument.

Suggested split, to be ruled on rather than assumed: severity and disclosure public, escalation and review internal. Escalation in particular describes when the operator is interrupted, which is not the estate's business to advertise.

T03 — The standing route

id: RISK-WP-0002-T03
status: done
priority: medium

Write down what happens when an embargo lifts: who hands over, in what shape, and how publication: published gets recorded back on the finding.

Small. It is a paragraph in docs/method/disclosure.md plus whatever policy-nexus needs on their side, not a mechanism.

Completed 2026-08-20. The route is in docs/method/disclosure.md: the check that lifts the embargo records it, the finding gets publication front-matter in the shape policy-nexus already requires (owner, revision, last_reviewed, review_interval), this repo asks for an entry with source_repo/source_path/proposed canonical_path, and publication: published plus the URL comes back onto the finding — because a finding that says public with no address is a claim, not a publication.

One thing the contract settled for T01: publication.json publishes a file from the source repo, so a reader gets exactly what is handed over. Whole-versus-summary is therefore a decision about what a finding file contains, not about rendering.

Non-goals

• No publication surface here. policy-nexus hosts; this repo hands over.
• No timed release, no coordinated disclosure, no notification tiers. Those stay deferred (docs/method/disclosure.md) until there are real users.
• No re-grading of anything to make it publishable.

Risks

A finding is published with an internal ruling attached. Mitigation: T01 decides whole-versus-summary before anything ships.

The handover becomes a project. Mitigation: three tasks, one of which is a paragraph. If it grows, that is a signal the publication contract does not fit findings, and that is a conversation with policy-nexus rather than more tasks here.