This document specifies the key considerations for organizations that are establishing appropriate roles and responsibilities for data quality management. The following are within the scope of this document: implementing roles and responsibilities for data quality management; providing documentary evidence of this implementation; a framework for roles and responsibilities; a functional model of roles and responsibilities; example deployment scenarios for the framework of roles and responsibilities; comparison with the processes specified by ISO 8000-61. The following are outside the scope of this document: process reference models for data quality management (ISO 8000-61 specifies a process reference model for data quality management); methods for data quality evaluation and certification; models for assessing the maturity of data quality management (ISO 8000-62 and ISO 8000-64 specify approaches to assessing the maturity of data quality management). This document can be used in conjunction with or independently of standards for quality management systems.