Definition
A delegation whose authority, evidence, and correction capacity are all currently in force: the grant sits in an allowed grant state, the policy record it rests on has not expired, and the institution can still meet its correction obligation. Justification is a present-tense property, not a fact about the launch review.
It is the point-in-time test. Revisable delegation is the standing property it tests for: the grant stays tied to the evidence that justified it, so it can be narrowed or withdrawn when that evidence changes. Ask whether a delegation is justified to grade it today; ask whether it is revisable to know whether the answer can be acted on at all.
It matters because most delegations fail by outliving their justification rather than by being wrong at the start. Asking whether a delegation is justified today is the operational form of treating authority as an authority lease.
Scale: Organizational · Phases: Deployment, Audit · Measurability: Fully measurable · Maturity: Core concept
Adjacent terms
Example corpus
- A claims triage delegation is suspended automatically when the population-drift policy record passes its review date, and resumes only after a fresh drift study is filed.
References
- STD-07 Revisable Delegation Record · Standard
- Delegation validity eval · Eval