| Port | FIAM contract participation; ITC-NET retains network Port | Distinct meanings: a FIAM Port offers/requires a contract; network profiles distinguish physical/device ports from protocol-level transport ports. Neither is a universal alias for FIAM Port. |
| InterfaceContract | Interface-domain meaning derived from FIAM; ITC-LAND retains Interface seed | Semantic agreement over operations. Landscape Interface and Network attachment-point Interface are contextual mappings, not universal exact aliases or inferred subtype relationships. |
| Endpoint | ITC-LAND/ITC-NET shared context; FIAM-qualified usage | Locates or selects a Binding. Related to Network Endpoint for network realizations, but local bindings need not have a network endpoint. A resource selector identifies information within its provider scope instead. |
| Information Resource / Information Shape | FIAM interface-domain roles; ITC-DATA retains Dataset, DataObject, Record, DataType, Constraint | Contextual alignment according to addressed state and admissible form; no universal subtyping or exact equivalence. Detailed schema content stays in describing artifacts. |
| Representation | FIAM participation encoding; ITC-DATA retains value-level Representation | Qualify the scope: JSON is an encoding for shape participation; boolean or integer describes a value-level form. Encoding does not determine semantic type or shape identity. |
| Participant / SystemNode | Align with ITC-LAND SoftwareSystem/SoftwareComponent where applicable | No blanket equivalence to Actor, host, process, or deployment; choose by modeled scope. |
| Entity identifier | ITC-IDENT Identifier / Scoped Identifier | FIAM identifier syntax alone does not establish global identity. |
| same-entity-as | Relate to ITC-IDENT Synonymity Assertion | FIAM query-time equivalence has specific evidence constraints; no destructive merge or automatic cross-canon equivalence. |
| Assertion | ITC-GOV Assertion | FIAM specializes architectural property/relation assertions with evidence and polarity. |
| FIAM evidenceRecord | Map to ITC-EVID Evidence plus Evidence Source | FIAM evidenceRecord is support metadata with source, mode and confidence. ITC Evidence is an assertion drawn for a question; source container is separately identified. This is not a one-to-one rename. |
| Evidence score | ITC-EVID Evidence strength | A FIAM Lens computes a policy-specific heuristic; confidence and support scores are not universal truth probabilities. |
| Artifact / KnowledgeArtifact | FIAM describes/implements roles; ITC-INFOSPACE retains KnowledgeArtifact | A describing document carrying reusable knowledge may qualify as KnowledgeArtifact. Merely implementing a contract does not establish that classification. |
| Evidence Source / Evidence | ITC-EVID shared meanings; FIAM assertion/support mapping | Evidence Source is an addressable container, with relevant version or capture where mutable. Evidence is a separate assertion drawn for an explicit interest. A FIAM evidenceRecord's support metadata is not automatically that ITC assertion. |
| Zone / security profile | Reference FIAM contextual classifications | No transfer of generic network, security, trust, tenant, or authorization ownership. |
| Policy / decision | ITC-GOV Policy / Decision | A Lens finding is an interpretation, not automatically a governed decision or authorization. |
