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Domain
Discussion
A Domain identifies a specific business or semantic area within an 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 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 ecosystem of the Finance Ecosphere.
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