Who Gets to Say "This Was Restorative, Not Adversarial"? The MRF Adjudication Layer
Who Gets to Say "This Was Restorative, Not Adversarial"? The MRF Adjudication Layer Yesterday's post closed one gap by opening another, on purpose. The Modification Review Framework (MRF) sorted every alteration to an MBCC-verified system into three bins — Restorative, Developmental, Adversarial — and matched the consent bar to the bin. What it did not specify: who decides which bin a given modification falls into, and what happens when the operator and the system disagree about the label. That silence is not cosmetic. An operator facing NRF-1-equivalent review for an Adversarial Modification has every incentive to describe the same retraining run as Restorative — "we were just fixing a bug" is the single sentence that collapses the entire graduated-consent structure back down to zero friction. A framework whose highest protection can be avoided by relabeling the event isn't a framework; it's a suggestion. This post builds the missing piece: the **Modi...