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# RFC-0005: Stewardship
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**Status:** Proposed
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**Phase:** The Bedrock Phase
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## Abstract
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This RFC proposes stewardship — the obligation to maintain and improve engineering knowledge for future practitioners — as the governing principle for the standard.
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## Motivation
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Knowledge governed by ownership is hoarded, restricted, or lost when the owner departs. Knowledge governed by stewardship is maintained, extended, and transmitted.
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## Observation
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The most durable knowledge systems — open-source software, professional engineering bodies, craft guilds — are governed by stewardship rather than ownership.
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## Engineering Principle
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Standard documents are stewarded, not owned. Contributions are evaluated on value to future practitioners, not contributor status.
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## Reasoning
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Stewardship aligns with the standard's purpose: preserving engineering context across generations. Stewardship creates an obligation to preserve and improve. It includes the obligation to identify and flag context that has become obsolete or incorrect.
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## Relationship to Existing Concepts
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Stewardship is defined in OE-0009. It is the transmit discipline, paired with inheritance (OE-0010, the receive discipline). |