Protocol Compatibility

Kind: constraint

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: architecture:protocol-compatibility

Severity: mandatory

Scope: integration, network, message

Canonical: Ontology

A rule or precondition that both ends of a connection speak a declared protocol version they both support.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Versioning and before Interoperability.

Requires

• Protocol Contract
• Versioning

Reinforces

• Interoperability

Enables

• Multi-Client Integration

Conflicts with

• Proprietary Drift

In tension with

• Protocol Optimization

Tensions

• Protocol Compatibility / Protocol Optimization

Violated by

• Proprietary Drift

Refactored by

• Extract Adapter
• Standardize the Interface

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Linked from

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Codebase / System Architecture Styles
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Severity levels
• The resolutions