Status: IN
DIP's structured architectural mechanism (formal statements, implementation strategies, ownership rule) provides a principled foundation that aligns with the interface coupling lifecycle: Bridge's proactive abstractions and Adapter's reactive boundary adaptations are consistent with dependency inversion principles, and the behavioral decoupling patterns (Command, Observer, Mediator, Chain) operate across abstraction boundaries of the kind DIP governs — suggesting DIP as a significant architectural theory underlying coupling management practice.
DIP mechanism (depth-1, terminal) + coupling lifecycle (depth-4) connect theory to practice — DIP is the WHY behind the coupling management HOW
Depends on (SL): dip-complete-architectural-mechanism, interface-coupling-complete-lifecycle