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Design intent: split the server contract along the normative line (spec-owned protocol schemas vs implementation contract) #147

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@tnunamak

Captured during the 2026-08-14 repo-reorg planning so it isn't forgotten.

Today @pdpp/reference-contract mixes two things: the normative protocol surface (AS/RS auth, grants, data query — what the spec should eventually own as machine-readable, conformance-testable schemas, per OIDC/FHIR precedent) and implementation-internal routes (console/admin/ops — which belong to the implementation alone).

Target state: the spec owns versioned protocol schemas that the conformance suite tests against; the implementation's contract imports and extends them. reference-contract as it stands is a scaffold toward that, not the terminal design.

Not now: do this as part of conformance-suite work, after the repo split. Until then, avoid deepening the mixing (new normative routes should be clearly separable from implementation-internal ones).

Assisted-by: AI

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