Technical Team/Minutes/2020-07-28

July 28, 2020

Attendees

• Kate Stewart
• Thomas Steenbergen
• Rose Judge
• Nisha Kumar
• William Bartholomew
• Steve Winslow
• Gary O’Neall
• Jim Hutchison

Topics: SPDX 3.0 Base Profile

SPDX 3.0 Base Profile

• Continuing discussion from last week on the model
• relationship Model as it relates to container
  • There will be a large number of external references
  • Potential issue of sharability across different deployment
  • Keep the SBOM with the artifact – so there will be a lot of external document references
• Snippets simplification proposal
  • Do we relax the guiding principles for using external definitions (e.g. pointer model)?
    • Proposal to relax guiding principle to review existing standards but only adopt those that do not overly complicate the SPDX standard
• Overview of Template for profiles
  • Discussion on how we represent the mandatory/optional requirements
  • Only change for an existing field is to make the field mandatory
• Should we allow any arbitrary additional tools?
  • Allows for easy extension
  • Most tools will ignore what they don’t understand
  • Possible issue with allowing proprietary extensions which may not be helpful to the open standard
  • Validation may break
  • Different design principle from 2.0 where extensions are only in annotations and comments
  • Proposal to allow adding new profiles and new fields in point release
    • General agreement
  • Appendix should be added to describe how the fields should be added
• Model update – replaced string field of PackageName with “FromFile”
  • General agreement the update made sense – but is different from 2.0
  • Agreed on a different name – packageFile
  • Checksum would be in the file and can be removed from the Package as a property
• Relationship model for containers (continued)
  • Do we support the decomposition of SBOM’s as described by Nisha
    • General agreement and support
    • Suggestion to add external reference location information to find the external documents

Next Week

• Continue discussion on container SBOM relationships
• Aug 11 Legal profile