Everywhere I've worked, "signing off" on the changes just meant we were OK with the technical implementation. Unless you were junior, you were trusted to have a

Everywhere I've worked, "signing off" on the changes just meant we were OK with the technical implementation. Unless you were junior, you were trusted to have approval for the purpose of the change. A change like this, which was linking to an official policy document, wouldn't have raised any eyebrows.