Category:Foundations

The Foundations (FND) domain includes categories that define general purpose concepts required to support other FIBO domains.

These include concepts and relationships about people, organizations, places, and most importantly, contracts that are essential to domains such as Business Entities (BE), Financial Business and Commerce (FBC), Indices and Indicators (IND), and Securities (SEC).

The scope of the definitions provided in FND is limited to coverage of exactly those concepts needed by other FIBO specifications. They may be useful for other domains, such as insurance, but are intentionally underspecified to avoid unintended consequences and thus do not provide exhaustive coverage for any concept contained herein. However, Foundations is designed for growth over time. The expectation is that as additional foundational knowledge is needed to define concepts in other FIBO domain areas, additional categories and/or concepts will be integrated into Foundations as required.The 'metadata for FND' describes the FND domain.