Huh. Very interesting. I have a notion that all decisions should auto expire and be explicitly renewed. Because it's so hard to cull outdated or revisit / repair suboptimal rules. Inspired by stuff like IP/TCP leases and cache TTL.

But your example of the powers that be waving thru a bad rule refresh suggests my notion won't be sufficient.

Thoughts?

Well, the process did exactly what it was required to do, to classify countries by income levels. China is not that rich, not even passing as a newly industrialised country.

Were it to pass as such, say, Kenya and many other African countries would've too.