Management of Protocols (VE-P1 v0.2.0)

Abstract

Management of Protocols (VE-P1 v0.2.0) is a draft for comment and is not citable in a conformance claim. It governs the lifecycle of a protocol published by The Valuation Engineer: how one is proposed, reviewed, exposed for comment, released, maintained, revised and withdrawn, and what record each step leaves. A protocol means a specific instruction for the execution of a defined task, ordinarily a valuation task; it is not a standard, and standards belong to the professional bodies that issue them. The draft's requirements cover proposal, drafting, review by a named and published roster, the recorded disposition of every comment, release only when the conformance suite passes, review intervals not exceeding five years, withdrawal, and records. The procedure does not govern how a protocol is written, creates no obligation on any valuer, and does not determine whether a protocol is technically correct. The draft names its open points: no public comment process, no appeal, and no definition of consensus.