Protocol Independence / Protocol-Specific Features
Kind: tension
Record: tension:protocol-independence-protocol-specific-features
Canonical: Schema
"protocol-independence" (resource-core layer) is traded against "Protocol-Specific Features" (resource-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Protocol-Specific Features" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Standards Compliance / Innovation/Flexibility and before Configuration Externalization / Config Sprawl.