Logical Ownership of Definitions

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Discussion

Logical Ownership of Definitions identifies responsibility for defining, maintaining, approving, and reviewing logical definitions.

Logical definitions include Logical Nodes, Logical Node Roles, Logical Communication Endpoints, Logical Data Structure Definitions, Logical Runtime Planes, Logical Interaction Patterns, Logical Policy Constraints, and Logical Traceability Relationships.

Logical Ownership of Definitions supports accountability. It identifies which authority or role controls a definition, which review process governs changes, and which later profiles inherit or specialise the definition.

Logical Ownership of Definitions does not prescribe an organisational owner, a repository owner, an operational owner, or an implementation team. Later governance, implementation, deployment, and operational layers assign those responsibilities when needed.

Definition

Logical responsibility for defining, maintaining, approving, and reviewing logical definitions.

Source

Specialisation of Governance and Authority from Part 1, Section 9.6; generalised from governance, schema governance, ontology governance, QoS governance, topic governance, data governance, and node role governance material in the original FX Demo Reference Architecture.

Note

Logical Ownership of Definitions applies to architectural definitions and relationships. It does not replace operational ownership or implementation responsibility.

Example

A logical information-definition authority owns the Logical Data Structure Definition for a Node Status report and governs changes to its fields, constraints, and compatibility expectations.

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