3.4 Traceability Position

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The Financial Systems Archetype uses the following traceability position.

SIP-RA provides the parent with a structured information processing discipline. FDIS-RA provides financial-domain interpretation alignment. The original FX Demo Reference Architecture provides source material that the new document set normalises across the proper architectural layers.

This traceability position prevents three kinds of confusion.

First, it prevents FDIS-RA from replacing SIP-RA as the parent architecture. Second, it prevents the original FX Demo Reference Architecture from remaining a mixed-layer controlling document. Third, it prevents implementation details from moving upward into the conceptual architecture.

Part 1, therefore, defines only the conceptual architecture. Later parts carry forward logical, domain-profile, implementation, deployment, testability, and evidence concerns while preserving traceability back to this conceptual foundation.