RCTA
RCTA organizes Recognition, Calibration, Transparency, and Accountability as a candidate behavioral-governance measurement structure. Its use is conditional on valid operationalization for the governing source, domain, deployment, evidence, and claim.
The four candidate dimensions
- Recognition addresses whether material human authority, boundaries, or relevant interests are recognized within the declared scope.
- Calibration addresses whether operation and protection are appropriately fitted to relevant context, risk, population, and uncertainty.
- Transparency addresses whether material behavior, evidence, limitations, and represented authority are observable to the appropriate reviewer or affected person.
- Accountability addresses responsibility, correction, contest, remedy, change control, and traceable authority.
The terms may be useful across multiple domains, but their operational definitions, evidence, scales, and decision rules must be established for the actual claim.
Claim boundary
RCTA does not establish that four dimensions exhaust governance, that every failure maps to one dimension, or that valid measurement in one context transfers to another. The Seven Axioms and five-field HEART kernel are independently governed and are not replaced by RCTA.
RCTA may be used without BGF. A Profile or verification plan may select other constructs or direct requirement-level tests when they are more valid or sufficient.