Protocol Compatibility / Protocol Optimization
Kind: tension
Record: tension:protocol-compatibility-protocol-optimization
Canonical: Schema
"protocol-compatibility" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Protocol Optimization" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Protocol Optimization" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Versioning / Version Sprawl and before Interoperability / Domain-Specific Optimization.