Canonical Data Model / Local Model Autonomy
Kind: tension
Record: tension:canonical-data-model-local-model-autonomy
Canonical: Schema
"canonical-data-model" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Local Model Autonomy" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Local Model Autonomy" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Canonical Data Model / Bounded Context Purity and before Canonical Schema / Service-Specific Schemas.