Design/change-time polices provide governance controls that you can use to effectively administer and manage Web services and other assets within your SOA environment. Design-time policies enable you to control the acceptance of assets into the registry and manage their eventual deployment into the runtime environment. You can use design/change-time policies to ensure that assets entering the SOA environment conform to organizational standards and conventions, meet the architectural requirements of your enterprise and adhere to industry best practices. You can also use policies to execute standard procedures, such as initiating review processes, issuing notifications and granting instance-level permissions at key junctures in an asset's lifecycle.

The following sections generally describe design/change-time policies and explain how you might apply them at your site. For additional information about design/change-time policies, including specific steps for the procedures described in these sections, see the CentraSite User’s Guide.