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# INTENT
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## Purpose
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This repository develops and maintains the FIAM (Facetted Interface
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Architecture Model) standard and its reference architecture, analytics, and
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control implementation.
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FIAM provides a precise way to describe interfaces as composable facets,
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connect declared architecture with runtime evidence, and query the resulting
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architecture without confusing observations with declarations.
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## Intended Users
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The primary users are architects, platform engineers, implementers of
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interface and architecture tooling, and agents working across the FIAM
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ecosystem. The repository should make the standard understandable and
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executable for both humans and automation.
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## Scope
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This repository owns:
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- the FIAM vocabulary, canonical model, and conformance rules;
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- schemas and examples for declared, observed, and composite architectures;
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- reference converters, catalog/index tools, and analytical lenses;
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- validation, adversarial fixtures, and semantic-regression checks;
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- documentation of versioning, identity, evidence, snapshots, and migration.
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It does not own deployment of a consuming platform, a general-purpose
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service catalog, or the product UI of downstream architecture products.
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## Architectural Principles
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- Keep interface identity, representation shape, and evidence distinct.
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- Preserve source records and provenance; inferred correspondence is not a
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destructive merge.
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- Treat declared and observed architecture as complementary projections.
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- Make uncertainty, ambiguity, staleness, and missing evidence explicit.
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- Prefer deterministic, schema-validated artifacts and reproducible checks.
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- Evolve the standard deliberately, with migration and conformance guidance.
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## Current Baseline
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The current repository is a seed containing the FIAM v0.2 Draft 6 reference
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material under `history/FIAM_v0.2_Draft6/`. That material is the starting
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baseline, not yet a complete actively maintained release layout. The first
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operational priority is to establish ownership, validation, and a clear path
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from the archived draft to the next maintained FIAM release.
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## Completion Condition
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The intent is being fulfilled when FIAM has a maintained normative release,
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an executable conformance suite, documented extension and migration rules,
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and reference tooling that produces trustworthy architecture intelligence from
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declared and runtime interface evidence.
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