The mix · The split · Element

The classification

Which channels count as which.

The part

What it is

Some channels do both and should be split rather than assigned wholly to one side.

The classification is where the argument happens, and settling it once prevents a recurring dispute about what counts.

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.