Initial draft of SIG architecture charter.

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 # Architecture SIG
 
-The SIG would be intended to guide the design principles of Kubernetes, as well as provide a consistent  body of expertise necessary to ensure architectural consistency over time.
+The Architecture SIG maintains and evolves the design principles of Kubernetes, and provides a consistent body of expertise necessary to ensure architectural consistency over time.
 
 ## Meetings
 * [Mondays at 17:00 UTC](https://zoom.us/j/2018742972) (biweekly). [Convert to your timezone](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=17:00&tz=UTC).
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+## Additional materials
+
+* [Charter](charter.md)
+
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+# SIG Architecture Charter
+
+This charter is a WIP.
+
+The Architecture SIG maintains and evolves the design principles of
+Kubernetes, and provides a consistent body of expertise necessary to
+ensure architectural consistency over time.
+
+The scope covers issues that span all the system's components, how
+they fit together, how they interact, etc.
+
+Specific areas of focus include:
+
+* Defining the scope of the Kubernetes project
+  * [What is (and is not) Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes/)
+* Maintaining, evolving, and enforcing the deprecation policy
+  * [Deprecation policy](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/deprecation-policy/)
+* Documenting and evolving the system architecture
+  * [Kubernetes Design and Architecture](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/architecture.md)
+* Defining and driving necessary extensibility points
+* Establishing and documenting design principles
+  * [Design principles](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/principles.md)
+* Establishing and documenting conventions for system and user-facing APIs
+  * [API conventions](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/api-conventions.md)
+* Developing necessary technical review processes, such as the proposal and API review processes
+* Driving improvement of overall code organization, including github orgs and repositories
+* Educating approvers/owners of other SIGs (e.g., by holding office hours)
+
+Out of scope:
+* Issues specific to a particular component or functional area, which would be the purview
+  of some other SIG, except where they deviate from project-wide principles and conventions.
+* [Release support policy](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/versioning.md)
+  is owned by SIG Release
+
+TODO:
+* Formalize decision processes
+* Document initial reviewers and approvers
+* Clarify criteria for areas out of scope for the SIG
+* Document who owns client library, build, and release artifacts
+* Document who owns conformance definition, profiles, etc.