Status: IN
Forward-only semantics provide a single consistency guarantee across two independent architectural concerns: processing paradigms (event streams, task pipelines, notification delivery all use irrevocable forward progress) and conflict resolution at all distribution levels (single-node optimistic retry, multi-node sibling retention, cross-replica anti-entropy all resolve by moving forward rather than rolling back) — making forward-only the architecture's universal consistency primitive.
Forward-only governs both normal processing and conflict resolution, establishing it as the universal consistency primitive
Depends on (SL): forward-only-is-universal-processing-primitive, conflict-resolution-is-forward-only-at-all-distribution-levels