Macro-3 S2 Owner Single-vs-Committee Analysis — R2-B2 (2026-06-19)

Date: 2026-06-19 · Workstream: R2-B2-MACRO-3-OPTION-D-OWNER-DELEGATE-DECISION-PACKAGE-2026-06-19 (Deliverable 18 of 60) · Editorial revision: rev1 Class: S2 owner analysis · READ-ONLY · NON-ENACTING · NON-AUTHORIZING · OWNER_ASSIGNMENT_DRIFT guard · NO owner assigned · NO write performed.

Metadata convention. Editorial revision (rev1) only. Storage revision/content_length authoritative at read time.

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0. Status and non-authorization

STATUS: PASS — engineering / decision-prep. The trade-off behind the D16/D17 lean to a single accountable owner + council review. Engineering PASS ≠ authority PASS. Default: HOLD.

1. Purpose

Resolve the central S2 design tension: where does accountability sit?

2. Sources / evidence read

Macro-2 candidate matrix, proof obligations; Điều 32 quorum rules. Main process, no reader-agents.

3. Accepted baseline (carried)

The B2 producer needs a halt-authority: one role that can stop it. Halt-authority is hard to vest in a committee.

4. Evidence / analysis

• Single owner — pros: one answerable role, decisive halt authority, simple Điều-32 mapping; cons: single point of failure if the role-holder is unfit or unavailable.
• Committee — pros: resilience, plural judgment; cons: diffuse accountability, slow halt, easier to dodge responsibility.
• Resolution: vest halt-authority + accountability in a single owner role, and vest approval/oversight in a Điều-32 quorum (no self-approve). This is D17's M-3.

5. Recommendation / matrix / result

Recommend single accountable owner role for operation/halt, Điều-32 council for approval/oversight. Not enacted.

6. Owner-gated future work

The split is realized only when the Owner assigns the role and constitutes the quorum; forbidden now.

7. What remains unresolved

No role assigned; no quorum constituted.

8. Ready for GPT/Codex review

Yes — Codex should test the failure mode where the single owner is unavailable (who halts then?).