This paper documents the process used by the NIH community for the standardization of information technology architecture. The NIH standards process is an activity of the NIH enterprise architecture program that is organized and managed on behalf of the NIH community by the Office of the Chief Information Technology Architect (OCITA). The NIH enterprise architecture standards process described in this paper is concerned with all consensus-driven standards that are developed as part of the NIH Enterprise Architecture for IT. In the case of standards developed by non-NIH organizations, however, the standards process normally applies to the application of the protocol or procedure in the NIH context, not to the standard itself.
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