This policy is published at version 1.0 and carries a version number for a reason: a commitment that can be edited without trace is not a commitment. Every future change to it will change this number and say what moved.
What it says
Capability is treated as a ladder rather than a line. At each step, something must be true before the next step is taken, and the requirement gets heavier as capability rises: evaluation before release, then external review, then a stop.
The third of those is the only one that costs anything. A policy full of evaluations and reviews is a description of good practice. A policy that contains the sentence work stops, with conditions attached that somebody else can check, is the part that can be broken.
Written early on purpose
Nothing here currently comes close to the thresholds this policy describes. That is exactly why it is being published now.
A scaling policy written by an organisation that already has the capability is a document written under pressure, by people with something to lose by the answer. Written beforehand, the same sentences cost nothing today and are much harder to quietly soften later, because the version history will show it.
What it does not do
It does not define the thresholds precisely enough to be adjudicated by an outsider. Nobody’s does, and pretending otherwise would be the easy dishonesty here.
It does not bind anyone else, and it is not a standard. It is a statement of what this organisation will do, published so that departing from it is visible.