# Centralized Authentication / Identity Provider Availability

> "centralized-authentication" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Identity Provider Availability" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Identity Provider Availability" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:centralized-authentication-identity-provider-availability`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-centralized-authentication-identity-provider-availability

## tensions-with

- [Centralized Authentication](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/centralized-authentication.md)
- [Identity Provider Availability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/identity-provider-availability.md)