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Standard Keeper: Each standard is assigned a standard keeper who is responsible to maintain and refresh the standard as needed.

Primary Service Standard Team: Each standard is assigned a primary service standard team that is responsible to assign a Standard Keeper and to support the Standard Keeper in maintaining and refreshing the standard. Standard teams will be defined through the organizational hierarchy or the service organization depending on the scope of the standard.

Enterprise Architecture (EA): The EA Team is responsible to assign a primary service standard team to each standard, to govern minor modifications to standards, and to maintain the IT Architecture Standards Repository.

Technology Architecture Committee (TAC): Governs the adoption of and major modifications to IT Architecture Standards.

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Changes to IT Architecture Standards will be reviewed on a quarterly basis–September, December, March, and June. This process will be coordinated by the EA Team upon request of the standard keeper or primary service Teamstandard team. Requests for review should be accompanied by a copy of the existing document with markup showing the recommended modifications.

Minor modification will be reviewed by the EA Team. Major modifications will be reviewed by TAC. Revised and approved standards will be posted to the IT Architecture Standards Repository by the EA Team.

Mandatory Annual Review

Annually, all standards that have not been reviewed in the prior twelve months will be reviewed by the Standard Keeper and Primary Service Teamstandard keeper and service team. In JuneJuly, the EA Team will send a notification to standard keepers and primary service teams requesting that they review their standards and certify that they are up to date. Standards that need modifications should be revised and submitted for review following the Review of Standards Modifications above.