docs(federal): document PAIN-keyed FedRAMP VDR remediation deadlines - #15719
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Pairs with the dojo-pro change adding a Potential Agency Impact dimension to the VDR tiers. Documents the twelve-cell table with FedRAMP's own customer-effect wording on each rating, since "N4" says nothing about the judgment a compliance owner is being asked to make. Leads with the reason the dimension exists: the three shipped tiers give every exploitable, internet-reachable finding the same deadline whatever exploitation would actually do, and FedRAMP's table does not. Also records the three behaviours somebody enabling this needs to predict: an unrated finding keeps its base deadline (so nothing is re-dated at the moment you switch it on), N1 has no row because FedRAMP publishes none, and enabling the table replaces the three tiers rather than combining with them. Adds the exposure-verdict option to the existing VDR section while nearby -- it was already configurable and undocumented. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Documents a Potential Agency Impact (PAIN) dimension on the FedRAMP VDR remediation deadlines. Pairs with a Pro change; this is the user-facing half.
The three shipped VDR tiers give every credibly exploitable, internet-reachable finding the same deadline whatever the damage its exploitation would do. FedRAMP's published table crosses those same conditions with a PAIN N-rating, and the spread across ratings is large — from 2 days to 48 in the tightest column. This documents the full twelve-cell table and how to switch to it.
Each rating is labelled with FedRAMP's own customer-effect wording rather than a bare number, because "N4" tells a compliance owner nothing about the judgment being asked of them.
It also records the three behaviours somebody enabling this needs to be able to predict:
Plus a note that PAIN is deliberately a person's judgment: FedRAMP asks the provider to estimate the effect on agencies using the service and explicitly declines to prescribe a method, so a rule can propose a rating and route it for review, but the confirmation is the provider's to defend.
While in the same section, documents the existing Use Asset Exposure for VDR Tiering option, which was already configurable and undocumented.
English only, consistent with how this page's translated variants are handled.
Documentation only; no code or behaviour change in this repository.