Determine (101) a particular task to be autonomously facilitated in cooperation with another entity that also has autonomous task facilitation capabilities and then identify (102) particular supportable task facilitation objects as correspond to the particular task to be facilitated. Then identify (103) particular supportable candidate capabilities as correspond to at least some of the particular supportable task facilitation objects followed by then determining (104), for at least some of the particular supportable candidate capabilities, a corresponding relative preference metric to provide a metricized preferences-and-cap abilities matrix as corresponds to the particular task and this particular apparatus. This metricized preferences-and-capabilities matrix can then be used (105) to negotiate a particular selection of capabilities to be employed in cooperation with the another entity when facilitating this particular task.