diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f450dabe..8b78c1e6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ urlpatterns = winter.django.create_urls(app)
 - `winter.web.throttling.reset(request, scope)` is gone: an API method with `@throttling` declares a
   `throttle: winter.web.Throttle` argument, and `throttle.reset()` forgets what the scope has counted for the sender:
   for the identity that the request was counted for, even if the method has logged the user in since.
+- `register_native_response_type` is gone: an adapter passes the response types of its framework to `handle_request`.
+  An API method may still return a Django response.
 - OpenAPI: `generate_openapi(app, title=..., version=...)` returns the spec and checks `@raises` annotations
   of the application (`allow_missing_raises_annotation=True` skips the check).
   `winter.openapi.serve_spec(app, spec, url='openapi.json')` and
diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index 7b3ac7da..c4a08615 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -85,17 +85,14 @@ at least two of them.
 - **Framework behaviour is still process-global.** A `winter.web.WebApplication` holds the code of
   a web application, its injector and its interceptors. The adapters derive its exception handlers
   from its definitions, handle each of its requests in a child of its injector and throttle in the
-  storage that its injector binds. The other behavioural registries of `winter.web` and
-  `winter.openapi` (native response types, OpenAPI inspectors) are module singletons, and
-  `winter.sqlalchemy`, `winter.ddd` and `winter.messaging` take the injector from the service
-  locator `winter.application.get_injector`.
-- **Models are initialised once per process.** The Django adapter's `_initialize_process` and
-  `winter.openapi.initialization.initialize` fill those module singletons with the Django response type
-  and the standard inspectors on first use. In the
-  target, a `WebApplication` is given these registries like its interceptors, and they start with the
-  standard entries. Building from an application, an adapter adds
-  its own entries (the native response type) to that application only. The
-  `initialize` functions then disappear.
+  storage that its injector binds; what belongs to an adapter, such as the response types of its
+  framework, it passes to `handle_request` itself. The OpenAPI inspectors and global exceptions of
+  `winter.openapi` are module singletons, and `winter.sqlalchemy`, `winter.ddd` and
+  `winter.messaging` take the injector from the service locator `winter.application.get_injector`.
+- **`winter.openapi` is initialised once per process.** `winter.openapi.initialization.initialize`
+  fills those module singletons with the standard inspectors and global exceptions on first use. In
+  the target, `generate_openapi` is given them, starting with the standard entries, and `initialize`
+  disappears.
 - **`winter.wsgi`, `winter.asgi` and `winter.rabbitmq` do not exist yet.** HTTP is served through
   `winter.django` only, and `winter.messaging` has no transport adapter.
 - **All dependencies are mandatory.** Django, SQLAlchemy, Redis and pydantic are installed with
diff --git a/winter/django/view.py b/winter/django/view.py
index 7d6c87f2..4f60fdd9 100644
--- a/winter/django/view.py
+++ b/winter/django/view.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 from winter.web import Response
 from winter.web import WebApplication
 from winter.web import handle_request
-from winter.web import register_native_response_type
 from winter.web.autodiscovery import find_routes
 from winter.web.exception_handlers import find_exception_handlers
 from winter.web.exceptions import ExceptionHandlers
@@ -27,7 +26,6 @@
 
 def create_urls(app: WebApplication) -> List[URLPattern]:
     """URL patterns of the routes of an application, relative to where they are included in the urlpatterns."""
-    _initialize_process()
     routes = find_routes(app)
     exception_handlers = find_exception_handlers(app)
     # Each request binds the Django request, see _create_dispatch_function
@@ -35,17 +33,6 @@ def create_urls(app: WebApplication) -> List[URLPattern]:
     return _create_urls_from_routes(app, routes, exception_handlers)
 
 
-_process_initialized = False
-
-
-def _initialize_process():
-    """Process-global until native response types belong to an application: docs/architecture.md, Current deviations."""
-    global _process_initialized
-    if not _process_initialized:
-        register_native_response_type(HttpResponseBase)
-        _process_initialized = True
-
-
 def _create_urls_from_routes(
     app: WebApplication,
     routes: List[Route],
@@ -96,7 +83,15 @@ def _create_dispatch_function(app: WebApplication, route: Route, exception_handl
     def dispatch(winter_view, request: django.http.HttpRequest, **path_parameters):
         winter_request = DjangoRequest(request, path_parameters)
         request_values = {django.http.HttpRequest: request}
-        response = handle_request(app, route, winter_request, exception_handlers, request_values, django_user_identity)
+        response = handle_request(
+            app,
+            route,
+            winter_request,
+            exception_handlers,
+            request_values,
+            throttling_identity=django_user_identity,
+            native_response_types=(HttpResponseBase,),
+        )
         return to_django_response(response)
 
     return dispatch
diff --git a/winter/web/__init__.py b/winter/web/__init__.py
index 03d382e0..94fcddd7 100644
--- a/winter/web/__init__.py
+++ b/winter/web/__init__.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 from .request_body_annotation import request_body
 from .request import Request
 from .request_handler import handle_request
-from .request_handler import register_native_response_type
 from .request_scope import request_scope
 from .request_header_annotation import request_header
 from .response import Response
diff --git a/winter/web/request_handler.py b/winter/web/request_handler.py
index 3c4594de..abd7af5b 100644
--- a/winter/web/request_handler.py
+++ b/winter/web/request_handler.py
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ def handle_request(
     exception_handlers: ExceptionHandlers,
     request_values: Mapping[type, object],
     throttling_identity: IdentityResolver,
+    native_response_types: tuple[type, ...],
 ) -> Response:
     """
     Run the whole handling pipeline for a matched route of the application: throttling, its interceptors, argument
@@ -90,7 +91,8 @@ def handle_request(
     The request is handled in an injector of its own, a child of the application's one, that binds the Request
     and the request values of the adapter, such as its own request object. Request-scoped values live in it.
     Throttling counts the request in the storage of the application's injector for the identity that the adapter
-    resolves, since the adapter knows the users of its framework.
+    resolves, since the adapter knows the users of its framework. An API method or an exception handler may return
+    an object of the native response types of the adapter, which reaches the adapter untouched.
     """
     method = route.method
     response_headers: dict[str, str] = {}
@@ -121,7 +123,7 @@ def handle_request(
             method = exception_handlers.get(Exception)
             result = _handle_exception(method, handler_exception, request, response_headers, injector)
 
-    return _to_response(request, result, method, response_headers)
+    return _to_response(request, result, method, response_headers, native_response_types)
 
 
 def _handle_exception(
@@ -137,7 +139,13 @@ def _handle_exception(
     return method(handler, **arguments)
 
 
-def _to_response(request: Request, result: Any, method: ComponentMethod, headers: dict[str, str]) -> Response:
+def _to_response(
+    request: Request,
+    result: Any,
+    method: ComponentMethod,
+    headers: dict[str, str],
+    native_response_types: tuple[type, ...],
+) -> Response:
     if isinstance(result, Response):
         return Response(status_code=result.status_code, body=result.body, headers={**headers, **result.headers})
 
@@ -148,25 +156,9 @@ def _to_response(request: Request, result: Any, method: ComponentMethod, headers
         body = result
         status_code = get_response_status(request.method, method)
 
-    if _is_native(body):
+    if isinstance(body, native_response_types):
         return Response(status_code=status_code, body=body, headers=headers)
 
     headers.setdefault('content-type', 'application/json')
     content = b'' if body is None else json.dumps(body, cls=JSONEncoder).encode()
     return Response(status_code=status_code, body=content, headers=headers)
-
-
-_native_response_types = ()
-
-
-def register_native_response_type(type_: type):
-    """
-    Adapters register the response types of their framework here. An API method may return such an object,
-    and it reaches the adapter untouched.
-    """
-    global _native_response_types
-    _native_response_types = _native_response_types + (type_,)
-
-
-def _is_native(body: Any) -> bool:
-    return isinstance(body, _native_response_types)
diff --git a/winter/web/response.py b/winter/web/response.py
index b8cff448..a7501fd4 100644
--- a/winter/web/response.py
+++ b/winter/web/response.py
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 class Response:
     """
     What winter.web hands to an adapter after handling a request, and what an API method or
-    exception handler returns to bypass output processing and JSON encoding.
+    exception handler returns to bypass JSON encoding.
 
-    `body` is the final payload as bytes, or an object native to the adapter in use
-    (a Django HttpResponse, for example), which the adapter sends as is.
+    `body` is the final payload as bytes, or an object of the native response types of the adapter
+    in use (a Django HttpResponse, for example), which the adapter sends as is.
     """
     status_code: int
     body: Any = b''