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@@ -47,8 +47,36 @@ Note, this list is subject to change.
 There are more organization names that we are squatting on with possible future
 intentions. [For more details please see community issue #1407](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/1407).
 
+## Team Guidance
+
+Each organization should have the following teams:
+
+- teams for each repo `foo`
+  - `foo-admins`: granted admin access to the `foo` repo
+  - `foo-maintainers`: granted write access to the `foo` repo
+- a `bots` team
+  - should contain bots such as @k8s-ci-robot and @linuxfoundation that are
+    neccessary for org and repo automation
+- an `owners` team
+  - should be populated by everyone who has `owner` privileges to the org
+  - gives users the opportunity to ping owners as a group rather than having to
+    search for individuals
+
+**NB**: Not all organizations in use today currently follow this team guidance.
+We are looking to coalesce existing teams towards this model, and use this model
+for all orgs going forward.  Notable discrepancies at the moment:
+
+- `foo-reviewers` teams that grant read access to each `foo` repo haven't
+  proven themselves useful.  Reviews are now requested from sigs via
+  @sig-foo-pr-reviews teams, and read access is already granted to the public
+  at large.  These don't need to be created going forward, and can be removed
+  if they're not actively being used.
+- `admins-foo` and `maintainers-foo` teams as used by the kubernetes-incubator
+  org. This was a mistake that swapped the usual convention, and we would like
+  to rename the team
+
 ## Repository Guidance
 
 Repositories have additional guidelines and requirements, such as the use of
 CLA checking on all contributions. For more details on those please see the
-[Kubernetes Template Project](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes-template-project).
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+[Kubernetes Template Project](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes-template-project).