Appendix A | The DACS terminology behind the business language

Decision scope. The specific decision or use under evaluation, including relevant business boundaries, intended purpose, and what is excluded.

Core Decision-Scope Controls. The essential control requirements for the declared decision, its supporting evidence, its use conditions, and its ability to be reviewed later.

Extended Taxonomy Controls. Requirements establishing what business terms, categories, measures, and identifiers mean, with the relevant ownership and evidence.

Extended Ontology Controls. Requirements for verifying business relationships, their meaning and direction, constraints, and supporting evidence.

AI Context Contract Controls. Requirements addressing the information given to AI, permissible behavior, changing context, applicable restrictions, and recorded actions.

Semantic Contract. The documented, governed business agreement about applicable meaning, identity, relationships, rules, and permitted uses.

Accountability Gate. A controlled evaluation point that records the permissible next state - Proceed, Caution, Stop, or Quarantined - after applicable requirements are evaluated.

Conformance Record. The structured record of the decision scope, applicable controls, findings, supporting evidence, relevant authority, Gate result if established, time, and review conditions.

Decision Execution Trace. Where applicable, the structured account of an automated or AI-supported action, its inputs, context, tools, conditions, and resulting action.