Description : We have detailed here a foundational framework, showing how it could be considered as the key tool for providing a systematic reply to the RS and FOSS issues arising in the NIH-RFI. This framework can be easily adapted to more general contexts, and, thus, could be of potential interest for other scientific organizations, as well as for scientific communities with an important RS production, like the Computer Algebra and the Symbolic Computation ones, aiming to clarify and upgrade their policies and practices regarding this kind of production.