A commission is a human-made authorized body or mandate, conferred by a recognized authority, to investigate, deliberate, recommend, or execute a specific task or set of tasks. Parameters: (1) a granting authority — individual, institutional, or governmental — that issues the mandate, (2) a defined scope of inquiry or execution that delineates what the commission may and may not address, (3) appointed or designated members selected by the granting authority, (4) a deliverable or report that constitutes the commission's final output. Persistence: institutional charters, legal statutes, executive orders, and archival record-keeping systems preserve the commission's mandate, proceedings, and findings.
[formal: commissionis | substrate: behavior | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]