Technical Team/Minutes/2020-04-28

April 28, 2020

Attendees

• Alexios Zavras
• Nisha Kumar
• Steve Winslow
• Kate Stewart
• William Bartholomew
• Gary O’Neall
• Rose Judge
• Thomas Steenbergen
• Takashi Ninjouji
• Santiago Torres
• Matt Germonprez
• Rohit Lodha
• Sean Goggins

SPDX 2.2

• Review of pull requests
• Reviewed issues
• Went through checklist
  • Kate will work on a blog post
  • Meeting this Friday to review final checklist – Kate is organizing. William, Thomas, Gary, and

3.0 Attesting

• Issue on over-using relationships
  • For a reader of a document, important information is not present since it is referred to in a relationship
  • Potential issue of cycles in the graph
  • Suggestion that tooling can flatten out and verify the graph into something readable and/or greppable
• Should we have separate relationship types – each with their own relationship types
  • Between artifacts
  • Between artifacts and identities
  • Between identities
• Should it be part of the base profiles?
  • William proposed it would be and no one disagreed
• Discussion on “integration use cases”
• Question on relationship between links and relationship
  • Many to many? 1:1? 1:*, *:1?
• Santiago will progress the discussion forward and propose some naming alternatives to “linking”