Strengthen governance criteria for incubation and graduation

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+- [ ] **Commit to an annual governance health check on maintainer organizational composition.** _(A lightweight self-assessment to detect post-graduation governance concentration trends early.)_
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 ### Required
 
 - [ ] **Clear and discoverable project governance documentation.**
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-- [ ] **Project maintainers from at least 2 organizations that demonstrates survivability.**
+- [ ] **Project maintainers from at least 2 organizations that demonstrates survivability.** _(Verified through [LFX Insights](https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/) organizational dependency data, not just the MAINTAINERS file.)_
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+- [ ] **Document and demonstrate an org-balance mechanism for governance decisions** _(such as org-balanced voting, steering committee with org caps, or equivalent structural protection ensuring no single organization controls governance decisions regardless of maintainer composition. See [Org-Balanced Voting](https://github.com/cncf/project-template/blob/main/GOVERNANCE-org-balanced-voting.md) for a reusable template.)_
 
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 ### Suggested
 
-- [ ] **Contributor ladder with multiple roles for contributors.**
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+N/A
 
 ### Required
 
+- [ ] **Contributor ladder with multiple roles for contributors, demonstrably producing maintainers from outside the dominant contributing organization.**
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 - [ ] **Clearly defined and discoverable process to submit issues or changes.**
 
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.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/template-incubation-application.md

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+- [ ] **If the project has subprojects: subproject leadership, contribution, maturity status documented, including add/remove process.**
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+### Required
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 - [ ] **Clear and discoverable project governance documentation.**
 
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-- [ ] **If the project has subprojects: subproject leadership, contribution, maturity status documented, including add/remove process.**
+- [ ] **Maintainer affiliations are current and updated within 30 days of employment changes.**
 
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-### Required
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 - [ ] **Document complete list of current maintainers, including names, contact information, domain of responsibility, and affiliation.**
 
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 Note: this section may be augmented by the completion of a Governance Review from the Project Reviews subproject.
 
-### Suggested
+### Required
 
 - [ ] **Contributor ladder with multiple roles for contributors.**
 
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-### Required
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 - [ ] **Clearly defined and discoverable process to submit issues or changes.**
 
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