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Reference Architecture Standard
This standard governs how reference architectures are commissioned, authored, reviewed, published, consumed, and kept current. A reference architecture is a documented, recommended pattern for solving a recurring class of problem; consuming teams adopt it directly or justify a deviation.
- Type
- Standard
- Version
- 1.0.4
- Date
- 2026-09-14
- Owner
- Chief Technology Officer
- Approving authority
- Governance Library Maintainer
- Classification
- Public
- Confidentiality
- Public
- Category
- Architecture
- Review frequency
- Annual and upon material change to reference-architecture practice or platform stack
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outline
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Principles
- 4. Classes of reference architecture
- 5. Structure of a reference architecture
- 6. Maturity scale
- 7. Authoring
- 8. Consumption
- 9. Deviation handling
- 10. Maintenance
- 11. Governance integration
- 12. Quality expectations
- 13. Operating expectations
- 14. Framework alignment
- 15. Limitations
Frameworks it maps to
- The Open Group TOGAF Standard
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2022
- C4 model
- Open Agile Architecture (O-AA)
- OWASP SAMM
- NIST CSF 2.0
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