5.3 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.