--- title: IPA Compliant vs Compatible tags: IPA --- # IPA Compliant vs Compatible [FHIR-34724](https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-34724)- "Clarify conformance of dependant with regards to authorization" |IPA term| what IPA term means| [CapabilityStatement](http://hl7.org/fhir/capabilitystatement.html) element| CapabilityStatement element definition| |---|---|---|---| *compliant*|IGs can be compliant to IPA by requiring all that IPA requires, including SMART.|[implementationGuide](http://hl7.org/fhir/capabilitystatement-definitions.html#CapabilityStatement.implementationGuide)|A list of implementation guides that the server does (or should) support *in their entirety*. *instantiates*|IGs can "instantiate" (or be instantiations of) by being compliant with parts of IPA, such as profiles.|[instantiates](http://hl7.org/fhir/capabilitystatement-definitions.html#CapabilityStatement.instantiates)|Reference to a canonical URL of another CapabilityStatement that this software implements. This capability statement is a published API description that corresponds to a business service. *The server may actually implement a subset* of the capability statement it claims to implement, so the capability statement must specify the full capability details.