Verbal system · The naming rules · Element

The pattern

How names are constructed.

The part

What it is

Descriptive, coined, or the master brand plus a descriptor. Each has different costs in memorability, protectability and search.

Consistency within a tier matters more than the choice itself. Mixed conventions read as a portfolio assembled by acquisition.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.