1.4.2 Out of Scope

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The exclusions defined in this section are deliberate. They preserve the role of the Federated Data Interpretation Systems Reference Architecture (FDIS-RA) as a technology-neutral, implementation-independent architectural framework focused on responsibilities for interpreting, validating, and comparing reported data in regulated reporting contexts, including financial data.

This focus allows the Reference Architecture to apply across organisational, jurisdictional, and regulatory boundaries without binding conforming architectures or implementations to particular technical ecosystems, products, platforms, or deployment models.

To preserve its platform-independent scope, FDIS-RA does not define specific technologies, products, operational procedures, deployment architectures, or implementation strategies. It does not prescribe software architectures, infrastructure configurations, security mechanisms, performance targets, or procurement models.

FDIS-RA does not mandate modelling formalisms, ontology languages, rule engines, databases, artificial intelligence platforms, integration technologies, transport mechanisms, or vendor tooling environments.

These exclusions do not prevent an implementation, profile, acquisition programme, or downstream Platform-Specific Model (PSM) from selecting such technologies. They establish that those selections do not form part of the platform-independent architectural specification and do not, by themselves, demonstrate conformance with FDIS-RA.

The following topics fall outside the scope of this Reference Architecture.

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