Framework (glossary)

Architectural Framework: Conventions, principles and practices for the description of architectures established within a specific domain of application and/or community of stakeholders. (ISO/IEC/IEEE 2011)

Source

ISO/IEC/IEEE. 2011. Systems and software engineering - Architecture description, ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010.

Discussion

Examples are the Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodologies (GERAM) (ISO 15704) and the Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) (ISO/IEC 10746).