7. Relationship to Other Architectural Planes
The Cost Recovery, Compensation, and Settlement Plane derives evidence from other planes. It does not replace those planes. Table 7-1: Relationship between the Cost Recovery, Compensation, and Settlement Plane and other architectural planes
| Plane | Relationship to cost recovery |
|---|---|
| Data Plane | Supplies transaction identifiers, business context, data volume, value bands, currency pair, and chargeable context where policy permits |
| Control Plane | Supplies operational execution events, service status, retry events, failure events, replay events, and Node availability |
| Policy and Release Plane | Supplies obligations, permissions, release constraints, redaction requirements, and policy version references |
| Persistence and Evidence Plane | Supplies evidence identifiers, retention obligations, provenance references, replay records, and audit artifact references |
| Cost Recovery, Compensation, and Settlement Plane | Converts governed work and evidence references into cost attribution, compensation claims, settlement instructions, and accounting records |
Table 7-1 shows that the Cost Recovery, Compensation, and Settlement Plane depends on evidence and context from other architectural planes while preserving separation of concerns. The Control Plane observes execution. The Cost Recovery, Compensation, and Settlement Plane governs economic attribution. Operational observability does not provide economic accountability by itself.