Definition
The authorization decision that precedes any grant: whether the system should act at all. An admission gate records the evidence reviewed, the scope considered, and the outcome — including deliberate non-use, which is a decision with reasons and a date, not an absence. A system refused admission has not failed; the refusal is the gate working.
It matters because capability without authority is Law I's object, but the law has a step before the grant that is easy to skip: the evaluation of whether the delegation should exist. Skipping the gate converts a governance question into a momentum question, where the system runs because someone built it and stopping now is more expensive than starting was.
Scale: Organizational · Phases: Design · Measurability: Semi-quantitative · Maturity: Core concept
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References
- What does not convert · Theory
- Laws · Doctrine