Invitation to comment on TOSCA Version 2.0 before call for consent as OASIS Standard
60 Day Public Review - ends May 27th
OASIS and the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC [1] are pleased to announce that TOSCA Version 2.0 CS01 is now available for public review and comment.
TOSCA provides a language for describing application components and their relationships by means of a service topology, and for specifying the lifecycle management procedures for creation or modification of services using orchestration processes. The combination of topology and orchestration enables not only the automation of deployment but also the automation of the complete service lifecycle management. The TOSCA specification promotes a model-driven approach, whereby information embedded in the model structure (the dependencies, connections, compositions) drives the automated processes.
The TC received three Statements of Use from Ericsson, Tal Liron, and Chris Lauwers [3].
The candidate specification and related files are available here:
TOSCA Version 2.0
Committee Specification 01
5 December 2024
https://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v2.0/cs01/TOSCA-v2.0-cs01.md (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v2.0/cs01/TOSCA-v2.0-cs01.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v2.0/cs01/TOSCA-v2.0-cs01.pdf
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file at:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v2.0/cs01/TOSCA-v2.0-cs01.zip
Members of the TOSCA TC approved this specification by Special Majority Vote [2]. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process.
Public Review Period
The 60-day public review is now open and ends 27 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC.
This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.
Comments may be submitted to the project by any person through the use of the project’s Comment Facility. Members of the TC should submit feedback directly to the TC’s members-only mailing list. All others should follow the instructions listed here.
All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.
OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.
========== Additional references:
[1] OASIS TOSCA TC
[2] Approval ballot
[3] Links to Statements of Use
- Ericsson: https://groups.oasis-open.org/higherlogic/ws/public/document?document_id=72612&wg_id=f9412cf3-297d-4642-8598-018dc7d3f409
- Tal Liron: https://groups.oasis-open.org/higherlogic/ws/public/document?document_id=72634&wg_id=f9412cf3-297d-4642-8598-018dc7d3f409
- Chris Lauwers: https://groups.oasis-open.org/higherlogic/ws/public/document?document_id=72635&wg_id=f9412cf3-297d-4642-8598-018dc7d3f409
[4] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr/
[5] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tosca/ipr.php