Distribution · The timing check · Element

The gap

Whether there is time to read it.

The part

What it is

Arriving on the morning of the meeting is arriving too late for anyone to have read it, which is functionally the same as not arriving.

A day or two before is usually the requirement, and the production schedule has to be built backwards from that.

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.