# Interoperability Figures
Canonical contracts between heterogeneous systems.
Canonical objects isolate security and learning semantics from any one vendor transport, endpoint, or proprietary data model.
Canonical objects isolate security and learning semantics from any one vendor transport, endpoint, or proprietary data model.
Protocol adapter versus vendor binding.
A portable adapter handles transport and normalization; a vendor binding adds endpoint, authentication, lifecycle, and sandbox behavior that must be independently validated.
A portable adapter layer that parses and normalizes canonical contracts is qualified into a validated vendor binding, both resting on a shared canonical foundation.
One object, round trip, lifecycle preserved.
Interoperability is complete only when identifiers, provenance, state transitions, and retest behavior survive the return to the partner workflow.
Interoperability is complete only when identifiers, provenance, state transitions, and retest behavior survive the return to the partner workflow.
- 1Ingest
- 2Validate
- 3Normalize
- 4Enrich
- 5Project
- 6Return
- 7Update
- 8Retest