Standards Development

Scope

This document specifies a core set of vocabulary, architecture concepts and architecting principles associated with the architecture practice applicable to various entities such as enterprises, business components, capability areas, mission areas, missions, systems, systems of systems, families of systems, infrastructure, products, services, product lines, hardware, software applications and technologies.

This document is intended for:

— participants in architecting efforts;

— developers of architectures, architecture descriptions, reference architectures, reference architecture descriptions and reference models;

— stakeholders using architectures as the baseline for their activities and in understanding how and to what extent their concerns have been or will be satisfied;

— providers of architecture-related standards, guidelines, training, education and evaluation instruments used for assessment of architecture practices and architecting work products;

— developers of architecture description languages, architecture modelling languages, architecture frameworks, architecture development and modelling methodologies, and architecture-related tools and technologies.

This document does not address terms and definitions unique to specific application domains or areas. This document does not address concepts related to architecture competencies.