Fixed #16785 -- Documented some of the design decisions of the cache framework.

Thanks jamesp for the draft patch.

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diff --git a/docs/misc/design-philosophies.txt b/docs/misc/design-philosophies.txt
index 8664d4e7ed..39807ed3d0 100644
--- a/docs/misc/design-philosophies.txt
+++ b/docs/misc/design-philosophies.txt
@@ -307,3 +307,29 @@ Differentiate between GET and POST
 
 GET and POST are distinct; developers should explicitly use one or the other.
 The framework should make it easy to distinguish between GET and POST data.
+
+.. _cache-design-philosophy:
+
+Cache Framework
+===============
+
+The core goals of Django's :doc:`cache framework </topics/cache>` are:
+
+Less code
+---------
+
+A cache should be as fast as possible.  Hence, all framework code surrounding
+the cache backend should be kept to the absolute minimum, especially for
+``get()`` operations.
+
+Consistency
+-----------
+
+The cache API should provide a consistent interface across the different
+cache backends.
+
+Extensibility
+-------------
+
+The cache API should be extensible at the application level based on the
+developer's needs (for example, see :ref:`cache_key_transformation`).