A renewal date that acts on its own
Every grant carries a renewal date. Passing it changes the grant's state without anyone having to remember. A renewal cites new evidence, not the original approval.
Authority as a lease
A grant of authority is held for a term against a renewable justification, not owned outright.
Treating authority as a lease means a grant expires by default, and continuing it takes fresh evidence. The delegation carries the burden of proof, and the burden grows with how long it runs and how much its decisions matter.
The alternative treats authority as a title. Then silence renews it: a system that has not visibly failed keeps its scope indefinitely.
A hypothetical case. A vendor scoring model holds a twelve-month grant. At month twelve the grant lapses on its own. The team must file a renewal with new calibration evidence before scoring resumes.
In the glossary: Authority lease.
Mechanism, drawn
Authority as a lease, not a title
Treating authority as a lease means a grant expires by default. Silence is not renewal: continuing delegation requires fresh calibration evidence.
In practice
What to look for
Renewal as a rubber stamp
Renewal exists on paper, but grants are approved in batches without review, so the lease never ends. Check whether any grant has ever lapsed.
Grants that lapsed or narrowed
Report the median age of live grants against their renewal interval, and how many grants lapsed or were narrowed at renewal in the last year.
Where the standards use it:
- Law II: authority decays unless renewed (doctrine). The law behind the lease, and the clauses that apply it.
- STD-07 Revisable delegation record (standard). Section 2.2 requires expiry and revocation conditions on every delegation.
- Authority: policy validity. The taxonomy branch on versioned policy records and their review dates.
Does a lease mean the system stops on the renewal date?
It means the grant stops authorizing new actions until it is renewed. Whether the system halts, or falls back to confirm mode where a person approves each action, is a choice recorded on the grant.
Is a long lease acceptable?
Yes, if what is at stake and how long it runs justify the term. The term must be stated, enforced, and renewed on evidence, not on the absence of complaints.