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+# Launch Authorization Record
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+## Decision
+
+**Rejected**
+
+- Decision time: 2026-06-25T23:56:10+00:00
+- Proposed release candidate: none approved
+- Launch window: none approved
+- Cumulative unresolved issues: Critical 1, High 21, Medium 17, Low 2
+- Accepted exceptions: 0
+- Launch owner: unassigned
+- Rollback owner: unassigned
+- Approvers: none supplied
+
+## Reasons
+
+1. Phase 15 explicitly recommends not ready for Phase 16 release freeze.
+2. Exact runtime, frozen installation, dependency-backed tests, browser/AT/visual/performance evidence, production build, deployment rehearsal, and rollback rehearsal are incomplete.
+3. Product, content, claims, customer evidence, legal, privacy, consent, analytics, localization, accessibility, security, CRM, scheduler, assets, infrastructure, credentials, and operational approvals are absent.
+4. No production domain, hosting target, DNS, TLS endpoint, service destinations, monitoring, incident owners, or launch window exists in the supplied evidence.
+
+No deployment or DNS cutover is authorized.