====== Domain ======

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===== Discussion =====

A Domain identifies a specific business or semantic area within an [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:e:ecosystem]]. It provides the classification level most directly associated with a domain profile.

Within the Monetary Ecosystem, a Domain may identify an area such as Foreign Exchange, Commercial Paper, Settlement, Liquidity, or another financial structured-information processing area.

A Domain provides the business and semantic scope inherited by later logical profiles, implementation profiles, deployment profiles, and evidence plans.

Definition: 

===== Definition =====

//specific business or semantic area within an [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:e:ecosystem]]//

===== Source =====

Adapted from FX Demo Reference Architecture, Section 2.1.17, Archetype Classification Codes; generalised from classification codes to conceptual classification levels for the Financial Systems Archetype. 

===== Note =====

A Domain is not an implementation profile, a deployment environment, a DDS Domain ID, a runtime plane, or a topic namespace. 

===== Example =====

Foreign Exchange is a Domain within the Monetary [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:e:ecosystem]] of the Finance Ecosphere. 
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