P1-REQ-13-2-002

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The Conceptual Architecture SHALL distinguish conceptual elements from logical elements, implementation artifacts, deployment artifacts, and Evidence.

Part 1, Section 13.2: Conceptual Separation Requirements.

The Conceptual Architecture establishes architectural meaning before logical, implementation, deployment, and evidence concerns refine or realize that meaning. Distinguishing these concerns protects the architecture from ambiguity and prevents readers from treating later artifacts as conceptual definitions.

This distinction supports governance, review, traceability, and controlled evolution of the Financial Systems Archetype document set.

This requirement applies to conceptual definitions, conceptual diagrams, architectural principles, explanatory text, and cross-references within the Conceptual Architecture.

It applies specifically to distinctions among:

• Conceptual elements
• Logical elements
• Implementation artifacts
• Deployment artifacts
• Evidence

Verification SHALL confirm that the Conceptual Architecture distinguishes conceptual elements from logical elements, implementation artifacts, deployment artifacts, and evidence.

Verification activities include review checks confirming that:

• Conceptual elements have clear conceptual meaning
• Logical elements do not appear as conceptual definitions
• Implementation artifacts do not appear as conceptual elements
• Deployment artifacts do not appear as conceptual elements
• Evidence supports conceptual claims without replacing conceptual definitions

Related source section:

• 13.2 Conceptual Separation Requirements

Related requirement identifiers:

• P1-REQ-13-2-001
• P1-REQ-13-2-003
• P1-REQ-13-2-004
• P1-REQ-13-2-005

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