Guided Vocabulary Refusal

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Structural Core

Record: architecture:guided-vocabulary-refusal

Severity: mandatory

Scope: repository, vocabulary, tooling

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that answers a refused word with the declared word that covers its role, looked up in an indexed rejection table.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Agnostic-First Vocabulary and before Derived Naming Registry.

Requires

• Rejection Table
• Covering Concern
• Reverse Coverage Resolution

Reinforces

• Closed Vocabulary
• Agnostic-First Vocabulary

Enables

• Vocabulary Admission
• Discoverability

Conflicts with

• Unguided Refusal
• Borrowed Synonymy

Violated by

• Unguided Refusal

Refactored by

• Index the Rejection Table by Refused Word
• Name the Covering Concern in the Refusal

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming

Linked from

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Quality Attributes
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Severity levels