Assertions are built and deployed into Environments
For designing systems that align with business, environments are defined as logical locations where information can be passed quickly and simply. Two assertions that are deployed into the same environment can expect connections between them to be simple(even if the frame is complex). ‘Deployment Environment’ and ‘Trust Boundary’ are common terms that align with this definition. In AM the access that a person, who holds an authority, applies to an environment. There may be assertions (concerned with authorization) that provide access to the environment. Environments, while they have a system flavour, have significant sway in business design. Two authorities who share complex, structured, information may be constrained to do this because they only share an email environment. If their assertions are implemented in the same environment (shared app) then passing information can become automatic……
