Externally Resolved Slot

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Structural Core

Record: architecture:externally-resolved-slot

Severity: mandatory

Scope: root, filename, vocabulary

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that resolves a name slot whose words another source owns against that source, whether an index that allocates identities, an upstream key set or a field the file itself carries, so the closed vocabulary never holds a copy of them.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Registry-Held Order and before Case Dialect.

Requires

• Variant Slot
• Closed Vocabulary

Reinforces

• Single Source of Truth
• Determinism

Enables

• Stable Identity
• Glob Resolvability

Conflicts with

• Vocabulary Inflation
• Duplicated Authority

Violated by

• Copied Slot Word

Refactored by

• Resolve the Slot Against Its Source
• Remove the Copies

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming

Linked from

• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Domain Architecture
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Severity levels

in this codebase

• isLegalVariant