That sounds like it might work. I was commenting based on my experience of people deciding there had to be a single representation for an idea/type no matter wh

That sounds like it might work. I was commenting based on my experience of people deciding there had to be a single representation for an idea/type no matter what it was used for, across multiple projects and repositories. I was not dismissing appropriate validation at a boundary, just trying to pointing out that, at least in my experience, people get way too wound up about enforcing unnecessary consistency.