Compliance touches every system. Yet in most organizations it lives nowhere. Pieces of it are scattered across the ERP, the PLM, the CRM, spreadsheets, emails, and the minds of compliance officers. The Compliance Infrastructure Layer gives compliance a place to live: regulatory meaning embedded in operational objects, enforced by the systems that execute transactions, and proven by evidence generated at the moment of every decision.
The pages below define the five core concepts of that architecture. Each page is canonical: the definition, the normative rules, the conformance requirements, and the diagnostic question. The founding text is Compliance as Infrastructure by Gloria Gallo, where the full argument, the design method, and the domain playbooks are developed.