▪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.