Lamport Clocks / No Concurrent Causality Distinction

Kind: tension

Record: tension:lamport-clocks-no-concurrent-causality-distinction

Canonical: Schema

"lamport-clocks" (causality-core layer) is traded against "No Concurrent Causality Distinction" (causality-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "No Concurrent Causality Distinction" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Vector Clocks / Metadata Size and before Hybrid Logical Clocks / Clock Skew.

In tension with

• Lamport Clocks
• No Concurrent Causality Distinction

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• Resolution mechanisms