Creating a standby control file for cloning a standby database

Hi
I am in the process of trying to document the cloning of a standby database. I am trying to amalgamate three different documents - one for a normal clone, one for the creation of a SB database, and the other a formal Oracle document - the Business Continuity doc.
Among the several things that confuse me, is the issue of creating (or not) a standby control file.
I am not doing any kind of data file deletion / copying from source to target, as the SB database is updated all day with data file changes. I am doing a complete copying over of the APPL_TOP and techstacks.
My question then, is this: should I be worried about creating a standby control file? I am told by our Senior here that "you can get away with not doing it", which sounds like too much of a risk to me.
I am under a bit of pressure for this and I am not 100% sure about certain issues (see my other post for knowing how many DATA_TOPS we have on the SB, for instance).
Thanks for listening.
AIX 5.2.
Oracle 10g.
DA

Do you already have a Standby running ? (then it may be using a standby controlfile).
Yes. And there is already a standby control file there. It seems to me, that if the data (logs) transfers are done each minute or whatever between source and SB, and the SB is a copy of the db, then we dont need to worry about any kind of data files, since they should be identical. The only things I will need to change are the configuration files like the ifile in both dbs and tns_names, listener, tnsnames.ora, and the init.ora.
b. Are you creating a document about the process of creating standby from production ? If you plan to use DataGuard, you will need a standby controlfile. Otherwise , it depends on how you configure the standby.
No. I am creating a doc for how to clone from Production to a SB environment. A reason behind this is that the Apps side of the SB is about 9 patches behind the Production box, and we need to update it. I believe this is the main reason for doing this.
c. Just to check : You are NOT using Storage Mirroring -- ie D.R. ?
No, no DR on this environment.
Thanks.
DA

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