producing/consuming... do we need a new term of accepting, passing?

[mcr]

We think that this could sometimes be the case, but we felt that that the
diagram would best be adjusted anyway.
(Yes, we came up with different answers two what are apparently the same
problem with the diagram)

https://github.com/ietf-rats-wg/architecture/pull/414/files

Thanks for clarifying.

What I'm getting from this text is that there is "producing" and "consuming" per Section 4.

I took those terms to be describing/constraining information flow -- what information can comes and go among the various architectural elements.

It appears that Section 5 is introducing a new behavior which is "accepting" (receiving but not processing) and "passing" (sending but not processing). There also appear to be element specific behavior of "caching".

I see no conflict with these four behaviors. My concern is that these nuances in behavior were not explicitly stated. They should be. Furthermore, just as certain architectural elements are defined by what they can produce or consume, I'm wondering if the same is true for the "accepting"/"passing" behavior?