Every domain has exactly one owner. Not a committee. Not a "DRI in consultation with stakeholders." One person, with their name in the doc, who gets to say yes and no and live with the consequences.
The conflict-resolution path is short: surface the disagreement, name the domain, defer to the owner, escalate to the next holon up only if the disagreement implicates a domain the owner does not own. We have used this path approximately seventy times. It has worked approximately seventy times.
What goes to the whole holarchy: capital decisions over a threshold, anyone joining or leaving the operator pool, anything that touches the standards floor. Everything else, an owner decides, in writing, in a doc that gets indexed and searchable forever.
The most underrated feature of this system is that it lowers the temperature of disagreement. When a domain has a clear owner, you can fully express the dissent and then move on, because you know the owner has heard it and the owner is still the owner. The argument ends. The work begins. The plot remains unlost.
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