Message architecture · The supporting messages · Element

The relationship

How each supporting message relates to the master message.

The part

What it is

Making the relationship explicit is what prevents a supporting message quietly becoming the main one because it performs better.

A supporting message consistently outperforming the master one is a finding about the position rather than about the messaging.

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.