2.3 Taxonomic Views

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A taxonomy is a way of organizing things into useful and convenient classes. Each class can then be treated as an abstraction of the individual elements. For example, Dog is a class of Animal. Once an individual entity is classified as a Dog, generalizations can be made about what to expect from that individual entity.

There can be many taxonomies that classify entities. In the above taxonomy, there is class called Dog, however, the class can also be part of a different taxonomies such as role where the dog can be classified as “pet” or “working” and within working it can be further classified a herding, guard, or tracking.

For example, one taxonomic classification places an individual in the animal kingdom; however, another taxonomy classifies an individual according to their state of employment (working, retired, etc.). Each is valid; the only difference is perspective.

The DIDO RA employs the following taxonomies:

2.3.1 Network Topology Taxonomy

2.3.2 Network Access Control Taxonomy

2.3.3 Node Taxonomy

2.3.4 Data Taxonomy

2.3.5 Digital Assets