Description:  Business units, committees and other groups may create, modify and propagate ESI without clear individual ownership. It is useful to think of these groups as custodial entities during the early Identification and Preservation processes. Such Organizational Custodians will usually have one or more Individual Custodians associated who are responsible for resolving questions and custody issues.

Metric:  The metric is the time and effort to interview and assess members of the organizational unit, list, committee or other group to ascertain the relevance, volume and effort required to preserve and collect the ESI.