  We conjecture that the neutrino mixing matrix must be such that in the
flavour oscillation process the energy expectation values enjoy flavour
independence. Based on this conjecture we present unitarity and energy
conservation constraints on neutrino oscillation parameters. In our analysis
\theta_{13} depends on the ratio of the mass-squared differences \zeta and on
\theta_{12} alone; while \delta_{CP} is completely determined by \zeta,
\theta_{12}, and \theta_{23}. The standard neutrino oscillation phenomenology
(SNOP) suggests \zeta \approx 30. The resulting prediction for \theta_{13}
conflicts with SNOP expectation for all values of \theta_{12}. This leads to
the suggestion that some non-standard neutrino interactions may be intervening
to invalidate the SNOP inferred \zeta and \theta_{13}. An alternate inference
is to go beyond the three flavours of SNOP and incorporate sterile neutrinos in
the analysis.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;Nuclear Theory;Quantum Physics