# Discontinuing Policy Workflow Published policies cannot be considered as valid (active) indefinitely, there can be circumstances when existing versions of policies need to be superseded by their new versions. Such situations are considered to be policy 'deprecation' events. ‘Discontinuing workflow’ is a sequence of actions in Guardian UI which enables Standard Registry to explicitly state that a particular policy should no longer be considered active by the ecosystem and Guardian users. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://guardian.hedera.com/guardian-dev/guardian/standard-registry/discontinuing-policy-workflow.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.