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Decision points when not ordered sets can cause errors and topographical check failures #1246

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Yes. SSVC requires decision-point values and outcomes to be ordered sets so that relationships between decisions can be reasoned about and validated. SEE ADR's https://certcc.github.io/SSVC/adr/0009-outcomes-are-ordered-sets/ and https://certcc.github.io/SSVC/adr/0008-decision-points-are-ordered-sets/
However, it is not clear from the documentation what happens when a proposed decision point has values that cannot be meaningfully ordered—for example, an attribute such as color: red, blue, green. Without a meaningful ordering, the assumptions used to construct and validate an SSVC decision model may not hold.

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Add documentation and examples showing how to identify decision points and outcomes that cannot be meaningfully ordered, how this affects SSVC decision-table construction and validation, and when SSVC may therefore not be an appropriate modeling approach for such decision-making.

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