# Network Partition Possibility

> The requirement that a distributed design account for the possibility of network partitions.

Record: `lexicon:network-partition-possibility`
Kind: constraint
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-network-partition-possibility

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Explicit Consistency/Availability Choice Under Partition](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/explicit-consistency-availability-choice-under-partition.md) and before [Consistency Assumed Free When Healthy](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/consistency-assumed-free-when-healthy.md).

## Category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## Required by

- [CAP Theorem](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/cap-theorem.md)

## Linked from

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)