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SIE.3:10 - Architectural Rationale

Questions and counterexamples locate the distinctions that an integration must preserve. Reuse is therefore judged by its contribution to the question; extension is justified by a specific gap. Keeping model content, its maintained edition, its formal encoding, and its instances distinct makes both adequacy and later change easier to assess.