Provider Autonomy

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:provider-autonomy

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree of freedom a provider retains to change, constrained by consumer-driven contracts.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Protocol Optimization and before Rapid Prototyping.

Category

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

In tension with

• Consumer-Driven Contracts
• Consumer-Driven Contracts / Provider Autonomy

Linked from

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• The resolutions