# Position Issuance Gate

- **Artifact ID:** CHQ-D-2026-PIG
- **Version:** v1.0
- **Status:** ACTIVE
- **Public record:** https://record.cybersecurityhq.com/doctrine/chq-d-2026-pig
- **Machine-record SHA-256:** `ec0b5503eb88ddbabdf7efd5d100de454da1ca5b6ae87149daba6e6e7af5edef`

## Complete structured record

```json
{
  "id": "CHQ-D-2026-PIG",
  "title": "Position Issuance Gate",
  "version": "v1.0",
  "issued": "2026-02-07",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "doctrine_class": "ISSUANCE_RULE",
  "doctrine_scope": "POSITIONS",
  "governed_artifacts": [
    "Positions"
  ],
  "related_doctrine": [
    "CHQ-D-2026-ESG",
    "CHQ-D-2026-PIG-APP"
  ],
  "purpose": "This document establishes the requirements that must be satisfied before CHQ issues a Position of Record. The Position Issuance Gate prevents premature expenditure of judgment capital by requiring that Positions clear specific evidentiary and structural thresholds beyond the baseline Evidentiary Sufficiency Gate (CHQ-D-2026-ESG).",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "SCOPE",
      "content": [
        "This requirement applies exclusively to Positions of Record (CHQ-P series artifacts). It does not apply to Judgments, ACJs, Memos, Exhibits, Assumptions, Pressure Records, or any other artifact class.",
        "All Positions must pass ESG before PIG evaluation begins. PIG is a supplementary gate, not a replacement."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "RATIONALE",
      "content": [
        "Positions are CHQ's normative governance stances. Unlike Pressure Records or Signal Notes, a Position commits CHQ's institutional credibility to a structural claim. Issuing Positions prematurely dilutes their authority. Authority compounds through scarcity of declaration, not intensity of language.",
        "A Position that could have remained unsaid for another quarter without creating institutional ambiguity should not be issued."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "TRIGGER CONDITIONS",
      "content": [
        "A Position may be considered for issuance only when at least one of the following conditions is met:",
        "",
        "1. External Authority Test. A regulator, auditor, board, court, or insurer has taken an action that is incoherent without the structural distinction the Position identifies, and coherent with it. The external authority need not reference CHQ or use CHQ's terminology. The test is whether the action's logic depends on the structural condition CHQ would formalize.",
        "",
        "2. Convergence Density. At least three independent CHQ Pressure Records or Signal Notes, spanning at least two distinct technology domains, have surfaced the same structural pattern within a 60-day window without editorial coordination.",
        "",
        "3. Assumption Retirement Cascade. An assumption in the CHQ Assumptions Registry has reached Closure & Governance Signals status, and the structural condition underlying the closure directly generates a normative governance stance that cannot be expressed within existing Positions."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "THREE-GATE TEST",
      "content": [
        "Once a trigger condition is met, the candidate Position must pass all three gates:",
        "",
        "1. Resolution Test. Does the Position resolve structural uncertainty rather than preserve it? A Position that describes an ongoing tension without taking a stance fails this gate. Positions declare; they do not observe.",
        "",
        "2. Unsayable Test. Would non-issuance create institutional ambiguity? If CHQ can remain silent on this topic for another quarter without readers or relying organizations facing a gap in the governance record, the Position is not yet necessary.",
        "",
        "3. Quarter Test. Can this claim responsibly remain unsaid for another 90 days? If the answer is yes, the Position should be held. If the answer is no — because the structural condition is actively generating governance exposure that organizations cannot address without an external reference — the Position should be issued.",
        "",
        "A candidate that fails any single gate is rejected. Rejected candidates may be reclassified as Analytical Research Memos (ANRM) if the analysis has independent value, or held for future re-evaluation if the structural condition continues to develop."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "MINIMUM SUFFICIENCY CONDITION",
      "content": [
        "The structural claim in the Position must satisfy the following test:",
        "",
        "The outcome or condition the Position identifies must be incoherent without the structural distinction CHQ is formalizing, and coherent with it.",
        "",
        "If the outcome can be fully explained using only operational language (vendor error, misconfiguration, resource constraints, delayed patching), the Position does not meet minimum sufficiency."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "EMERGENCY ISSUANCE",
      "content": [
        "In cases where a structural condition generates immediate governance exposure and the standard PIG timeline would create an unacceptable gap in the governance record, a Position may be issued under emergency protocol. Emergency issuance requires:",
        "• At least one trigger condition satisfied.",
        "• Resolution Test passed.",
        "• Explicit notation in the Position metadata that emergency protocol was invoked.",
        "• Retrospective Three-Gate review within 30 days. If the Position fails retrospective review, it is reclassified as ANRM with an explanatory note."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER DOCTRINE",
      "content": [
        "• CHQ-D-2026-ESG must be satisfied before PIG evaluation.",
        "• CHQ-D-2026-PIG-APP (Adversarial Paragraph Protocol) operationalizes the minimum sufficiency condition and must be executed as part of PIG evaluation.",
        "• CHQ-D-2026-MVM does not require Position issuance. MVM governs minimum operational cadence; PIG governs issuance quality."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "ENFORCEMENT",
      "content": "Positions issued without PIG passage are subject to immediate review and potential reclassification. PIG determination is recorded in internal governance metadata at issuance.",
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "GOVERNANCE",
      "content": [
        "This doctrine document is maintained by CHQ editorial governance.",
        "Amendments require version increment and explicit changelog.",
        "This document does not expire. It remains in force until superseded."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    }
  ]
}
```