Message architecture · The master message · Element
The competing messages
What else is being pushed at the same time.
The part
What it is
Every function has a message it wants carried, and the sum of them is what actually goes out.
Naming the competitors makes the hierarchy a decision rather than an outcome of who published most.
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.
The other elements in the master message
The message
The one thing, in its agreed wording.
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Whether it is actually the message being received.
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