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The library · Whitepaper
Aspirational Architecture
TOGAF, golden paths, and infrastructure-as-code each declare intent, and each assumes something else will hold reality to it. Nothing validates a change against any of them before it runs.
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Conformance · Governance
Enterprise Architecture · Governance
Conformance Submission
How an implementation is verified against the IOM Standard: what evidence is required, how it must be demonstrated, and what a listing in the conformance directory asserts.
Read →Frameworks Describe. Something Must Govern.
TOGAF, Zachman, ArchiMate and SAFe describe architecture; none enforces it. Why EA needs an IOM authority layer to keep intent and reality reconciled.
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