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TWP: Add a brief mention of business networks.

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this could potentially break apps that assumed a certain value would always be found at a certain index. Target
versioning can be used to keep apps working even as the platform underneath it evolves.
\subsection{Business networks}
The infrastructure described so far is sufficient to establish a Corda network of nodes which can interoperate
with each other from a purely technical perspective. But application authors frequently require that users
of their software form a different kind of network layered on top; we call this a \emph{business network}.
Business networks define their own subgroup of nodes, membership of which is required to interact with the
others. The platform provides a notion of membership management via the `business network management service'
but otherwise defines nothing relevant to this concept: it is up to app developers to decide on the rules for
joining a business network and how it will be governed (if at all).
Business networks are discussed further in section 5.1 of the introductory white paper.
\section{Flow framework}\label{sec:flows}
\subsection{Overview}