The Establish Standards and Policies function is responsible for establishing and maintaining the archive system standards and policies. It receives budget information and policies such as the OAIS charter, scope, resource utilization guidelines, and pricing policies from Management. It provides Management with periodic reports. It receives recommendations for archive system enhancement, and proposals for new archive data standards from Preservation Planning. It also receives performance information and archive holding inventories from Manage System Configuration. Based on these inputs, archive standards and policies are established and sent to other Administration functions and the other Functional Entities for implementation. The standards include format standards, documentation standards and the procedures to be followed during the Ingest process. It provides approved standards and migration goals to Preservation Planning. This function will also develop storage management policies (for the Archival Storage hierarchy), including migration policies to assure that archive storage formats do not become obsolete, and database administration policies. It will develop disaster recovery policies. It will also determine security policies for the contents of the archive, including those affecting Physical Access Control and the application of error control techniques throughout the archive.