# Standards Compliance / Innovation/Flexibility

> "standards-compliance" (resource-core layer) is traded against "Innovation/Flexibility" (resource-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Innovation/Flexibility" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:innovation-flexibility-standards-compliance`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-innovation-flexibility-standards-compliance

## tensions-with

- [Standards Compliance](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/standards-compliance.md)
- [Innovation/Flexibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/innovation-flexibility.md)
