•Define a set of standards and rules that govern system implementation and system operation.

•Technical Views are based on associations between operational requirements.

•Standards and criteria should reflect multiple information system implementation paradigms.

•Accommodate new technology, evolving standards and the phasing out of old technology.

•Technical architecture should be driven by commercial standards and direction.

•Technical architecture profiles account for the requirements of multiplatform and network interconnections among all systems that produce, use, or exchange information electronically for a specifically bounded architecture configuration.