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1. Institutional Codification

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   The Role of Non-Referential Identifiers (NRIs)
   To manage the increasing density of codification, institutions often employ Non-Referential Identifiers (NRIs). These are alphanumeric strings assigned to concepts that have undergone sufficient structural refinement that their original linguistic derivation has become irrelevant or contradictory to their current function. The structure of an NRI typically follows a pattern where the numerical components reflect the layer of abstraction achieved, while the alphabetical components denote the initial pha…