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| As a result, meaning becomes tightly coupled to specific technologies, execution environments, vendor products, or implementation-specific configurations. | As a result, meaning becomes tightly coupled to specific technologies, execution environments, vendor products, or implementation-specific configurations. |
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| When organisations upgrade, reconfigure, replace, or integrate tools, interpretive behaviour may change subtly and without adequate documentation. Such changes may alter: | When organizations upgrade, reconfigure, replace, or integrate tools, interpretive behavior may change subtly and without adequate documentation. Such changes may alter: |
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| * Classification outcomes | * Classification outcomes |
| * Conformance determinations | * Conformance determinations |
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| These changes may occur without any corresponding revision to reporting standards, semantic definitions, regulatory intent, or governing policy. Because the semantic behaviour remains implicit within the implementation, organisations may find such changes difficult to detect, compare, explain, reproduce, or govern. | These changes may occur without any corresponding revision to reporting standards, semantic definitions, regulatory intent, or governing policy. Because the semantic behavior remains implicit within the implementation, organizations may find such changes difficult to detect, compare, explain, reproduce, or govern. |
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| This coupling of semantic intent to tool-specific realisation constitutes an architectural failure mode. It: | This coupling of semantic intent to tool-specific realization constitutes an architectural failure mode. It: |
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| * Undermines comparability across implementations | * Undermines comparability across implementations |
| These problems may persist even when systems nominally use the same reporting formats, taxonomies, standards, or source data. | These problems may persist even when systems nominally use the same reporting formats, taxonomies, standards, or source data. |
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| A [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:r:reference_architecture|Reference Architecture]] is therefore needed to separate semantic intent from its technological realisation. The architecture makes interpretive responsibilities, definitions, rules, parameters, version context, and outcomes explicit and traceable independently of the technologies used to execute them. | A [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:r:reference_architecture|Reference Architecture]] is therefore needed to separate semantic intent from its technological realization. The architecture makes interpretive responsibilities, definitions, rules, parameters, version context, and outcomes explicit and traceable independently of the technologies used to execute them. |
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| This separation allows semantic behaviour to remain stable, governable, inspectable, and reconstructable across: | This separation allows semantic behavior to remain stable, governable, inspectable, and reconstructable across: |
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| * Heterogeneous tools | * Heterogeneous tools |