A Connection defines the ability to pass information within or between Environments where Authorities make decisions.
Connections show where information arrives to support a decisions.
Connections shows where information is sent to support other decisions.
When planning and building Implementations, Connections show from where information is assembled to display to a user.
A Connection:
— Passes information from one assertion to another.
— May pass information to a different Authority
— is easily implemented when the source and target assertions are implemented in the same Environment.
— Passes information in the structure of the Frame of its source Assertion
— Passes information when initiated from its source Assertion
— May originate, and end, in different Environments.
— May pass information when its input is populated.
— May wait to pass information until invoked by its target.
— May have to be implemented with a buffer at the target.
— Never changes the information passed.
— Does not persist information.
— Expresses business information flows.