The Principles viewpoint allows the analyst or designer to model the principles that are relevant to the design problem at hand, including the goals that motivate these principles.
| Stakeholders | Stakeholders, business managers, enterprise and ICT architects, business analysts, requirements managers |
| Concerns | Architecture mission and strategy, motivation |
| Purpose | Designing, deciding, informing |
| Abstraction Level | Coherence, Details |
| Layer | Business, Application, and Technology layers |
| Aspects | Motivation |
Concepts and Relations