OpenChain Telco - 2022-02-03

1. The OpenChain Project
Telco Work Group Call 2022-02-03

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3. Telco group agenda
1. Welcome & “round the table” introduction of who is who.
2. Agree on cornerstone principles for our work on “Telco Standard SBOM” going forward. (below are my
proposals, if you would like to add further suggestion feel free to do so during the meeting or
over email).
a. We do not aim to change the OpenChain specification or fork it.
b. To implement the “Telco standard for SBOM” you need not be OpenChain conformant.
c. The solution in its entirety needs to adhere to the relevant international regulatory
requirements.
3. Is there a need for a formal Terms of Reference style document?
4. Work items: The suggestion is that we discuss some of the major points that was brought up during
our brainstorming sessions.
a. SBOM Dataformat: Suggestions so far include that the “Telco standard for SBoM” should mandate
SPDX in its latest version, SPDX in its ISO format, Cyclone DX (no version suggested), or that we
remain agnostic to the issue of dataformat.
b. File format (What should we use for the machine readable SBoM, one format or many? What format
should we use for the human readable version?) Do we want to support that these on a voluntary
basis are transactable separately from the binary/source?
c. Timing, when should the SBOM be delivered?
d. Template contract clauses to reference our “Telco Standard for SBOM”/playbooks.

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