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INTENT
Purpose
This repository exists to develop and maintain InfoTechCanon: an evolving, markdown-first reference system for building interoperable, adaptable, and extensible information-processing systems.
InfoTechCanon provides a shared semantic foundation for standards, concepts, patterns, profiles, mappings, and assimilation processes used across software, infrastructure, governance, DevSecOps, task management, knowledge systems, and related domains.
Layer And Boundary
This repository declares itself part of the Taxonomy layer under the NetKingdom Security Layer Model. It produces cross-cutting language: terms, semantic contracts, standards, profiles, mappings, and compatibility rules that let independently owned systems interoperate.
InfoTechCanon owns ecosystem-wide semantic contracts and terminology. It does not own a runtime position or state on which another layer depends. NetKingdom owns its security architecture and standards of record, including the security layer model and any NetKingdom-specific profiles that import this canon. A generic semantic contract belongs here; a security obligation imposed on the NetKingdom estate belongs there.
Primary Utility
InfoTechCanon helps turn integration by interpretation into integration by declared semantic contract.
It provides:
- canonical concepts with clear ownership,
- orthogonal standards that can import but not redefine each other,
- mappings to external standards, regulations, frameworks, and product models,
- assimilation processes for incorporating new bodies of knowledge,
- reusable pattern-language structures,
- application profiles for concrete implementation contexts,
- retrieval-friendly markdown artifacts for humans, agents, and tools,
- and guidance for making independently developed subsystems easier to connect.
Intended Users
This repository is intended for:
- architects designing interoperable information-processing systems,
- standards authors defining reusable domain models,
- repository maintainers declaring semantic boundaries and interfaces,
- developers implementing compatible subsystems,
- agents retrieving structured reference knowledge,
- governance and compliance reviewers mapping internal concepts to external obligations,
- and tool builders working on markdown-based infospaces, knowledge engines, and agentic development workflows.
Strategic Role
InfoTechCanon acts as a semantic operating layer for a growing ecosystem of repositories, services, agents, and documentation spaces.
It should support projects that need to remain adaptable while still sharing a common vocabulary and integration logic.
The repository is expected to become a reference point for related tools and systems, including markdown infobases, canonical landscape models, task and tagging standards, governance models, access-control models, and subsystem interface declarations.
Design Stance
InfoTechCanon is:
- markdown-first but machine-readable,
- network-shaped rather than purely hierarchical,
- pattern-oriented rather than merely taxonomic,
- externally mappable without being externally constrained,
- evolutionary without becoming arbitrary,
- orthogonal without becoming isolated,
- and practical enough to guide real subsystem integration.
External standards influence InfoTechCanon through mappings and assimilation. They do not define its internal semantics directly.
Core Commitments
InfoTechCanon commits to the following principles:
- Every canonical concept should have a clear owner.
- Standards should import concepts instead of redefining them.
- Mappings to external bodies of knowledge should be explicit, versioned, scoped, and justified.
- Assimilation should turn new knowledge into gaps, conflicts, mappings, and improvement proposals.
- Patterns should explain how concepts are combined in recurring practical situations.
- Profiles should constrain standards for concrete implementation contexts.
- Canon artifacts should be useful to both humans and agents.
- Evolution should preserve provenance, compatibility information, and rationale.
Non-Goals
This repository does not aim to replace external standards such as ArchiMate, CSDM, ITIL, PMBOK, NIST, YANG, SPDX, CycloneDX, or similar bodies of knowledge.
It also does not aim to define one mandatory enterprise data model that every system must fully implement.
Instead, InfoTechCanon provides a coherent internal reference system that can map to external standards, assimilate useful knowledge from them, and support practical interoperability across independently evolving systems.
Direction of Travel
The repository should initially establish:
InfoTechCanonCore,- a refactored
InfoTechCanonLandscapeModel, - early organization and governance model extraction points,
- a mapping model,
- an assimilation model,
- a pattern format,
- a profile format,
- retrieval conventions,
- and example subsystem interface declarations.
Over time, the repository should grow into a living canon that supports human reasoning, agentic workflows, validation, documentation generation, knowledge retrieval, and practical system integration.