Requests for comments (RFCs)

Hermes uses lightweight RFCs so proposals are written, reviewable, and hard to misread — the same idea as in The Illusion of Shared Understanding. Use separate Background and Proposal fields when creating an RFC. Initiative targets are requests for comment on that work — a thread for review and discussion, not only a formal change filing. Delivery leads and TPOs can still open goal completion RFCs when approval rules require it. When you submit an RFC here, you can add required approvers and raise the minimum approvals on top of what Admin configured for that target; you can edit those while the RFC is open, and eligible voters can suggest further tightening for you to accept or decline on the RFC detail page. Named approvers (or any admin when none are required) vote; when thresholds are met the RFC closes automatically. Approving Policies targets bumps the documented policy version. Policies & operating standards lists canonical Google Docs; RFCs for Policies and Operating standards require a Doc URL.