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Ecosystem
Discussion
An Ecosystem identifies a major functional, institutional, or semantic area within an Ecosphere. It narrows the scope of an archetype while remaining broader than an individual business domain.
Within the Finance Ecosphere, an Ecosystem may identify a major financial activity area such as Monetary, Securities, Insurance, Banking, Payments, Reporting, or Oversight.
An Ecosystem provides context for Domains. A Domain inherits meaning from its parent Ecosystem and from the Ecosphere containing that Ecosystem.
Definition
major functional, institutional, or semantic area within an Ecosphere
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
An Ecosystem is not a runtime plane, a community of Interest, a Kubernetes namespace, a DDS partition, or a deployment target.
Example
The Monetary Ecosystem may contain Domains concerned with Foreign Exchange, Commercial Paper, Settlement, Liquidity, or monetary obligations.