P1-REQ-13-2-002

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Statement

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

Source

Part 1, Section 13.2: Conceptual Separation Requirements.

Rationale

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

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

Applies To

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 elementsLogical elementsImplementation artefactsDeployment artefactsEvidence

Verification

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

Verification activities include review checks confirming that:

Conceptual elements have clear conceptual meaningLogical elements do not appear as conceptual definitionsImplementation artefacts do not appear as conceptual elementsDeployment artefacts do not appear as conceptual elementsEvidence supports conceptual claims without replacing conceptual definitions

Traceability

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Status

Draft