# IF.GOV.QUESTIONS (legacy: IF.5W)

## Role

A structured inquiry template to prevent hand-wavy governance.

It forces deliberation to answer the basics (who/what/when/where/why/how) and to cite evidence.

## Responsibilities

- generate a brief that can be reviewed by `PANEL`
- provide explicit slots for evidence and boundaries

## Non-responsibilities

- does not decide; it structures the inputs to decision

## Required evidence

- the brief is logged and hashed in the trace
- any claim in the brief must point to a verification path or be labeled `UNVERIFIED`
