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@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
---
-title: RSC Is a Protocol Before It Is an Architecture
+title: 'Who Owns the Tree? RSC Is a Protocol, Not an Architecture'
published: 2026-04-28
draft: true
excerpt: RSC is usually framed as a single architecture where the server owns the tree. But it is also a protocol, and the protocol supports more than one composition model. The overlooked question is who owns the tree.
authors:
- Tanner Linsley
+redirect_from:
+ - rsc-is-a-protocol-before-it-is-an-architecture
---
React Server Components are usually discussed as if they describe one architecture: the server owns the tree, client boundaries are marked with `use client`, and the framework stitches everything together during hydration.
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ The seam is placed by the client. The server says, "here is rendered content sha
This is the symmetry:
-
+ The two RSC composition models differ in which side owns the tree and which side fills regions of it.
@@ -205,7 +207,7 @@ That is the important distinction: the RSC output is not trapped inside a framew
A server function can return a Flight stream as bytes. Those bytes can be cached at whatever layer the application already owns:
-
+ Flight output can remain transparent through the cache layers the application already controls.