Vote Rationale Template
A structured template covering context, evidence considered, tradeoffs, decision, and what would change your mind.
Publishing a rationale is a Standard of Practice. The template keeps rationales comparable across members without making them uniform.
The Institute never reviews the direction of a decision recorded here - only whether the reasoning was published and legible.
Preview
Structure
- One-sentence summary of the action
- What you were trying to protect or enable
- Evidence you relied on, with links
- Tradeoffs you accepted
- Your decision, stated plainly
- What new information would change it
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