Re: Proposal - OpenChain Quality of Conformance Assessment Levels (including a sub-proposal for tooling quality assessment levels)
Christopher Wood
Hello all This is a great discussion. I do like Jacob's suggestion with some simple notation that indicates that the "levels" or whatever you call them are cumulative going from the base (Level 1 up through Level 4). I also believe that formal adoption of each level's requirements will become necessary for any "vendor or supplier" due to market demands and agree with Shane that they should probably not be dictated by the OpenChain Project. To show that the additive features of the Chart 10 could be added to an inverted stack of the levels. (Level 1 is foundational to the concept and building on Level 1 gives you advanced capabilities as a 4th column.
On Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 10:52:57 AM CDT, Jacob Wilson via lists.openchainproject.org <jacob.wilson=synopsys.com@...> wrote:
I agree with Steve’s sentiment of wandering tokens, in my opinion levels of assurance with progressive technology independent criteria are required. Borrowing from other ISO standards, I propose these "levels" outline a 1) goal 2) business case 3) metric. Goal criteria should increment as assurance or level of trust is achieved, while the case and metric move as the technology and supplier landscape change around the business.
In the below table I outline one view of this concept:
These are a couple of ways we can move along the field while keeping the goal posts intact. Of course I’m always open to feedback, and I realize this doesn’t prevent an organization from collecting artifacts of conformance (silver) before establishing a management framework (bronze). But we can see the crawl, walk, run analogy in the progression in levels of assurance (goals).. Perhaps platinum level is hiring Toni Kroos for 3rd party assessment.
Jacob Wilson Senior Security Consultant Synopsys Software Integrity Group (SIG) http://www.synopsys.com/software
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On Behalf Of Jari Koivisto
Hi All,
I think that this new slide 10 is better now. It might add unnecessary complexity, but maybe each of the 4 arrows could have a small loop arrow on top depicting the nature of iterative work involved at each state, e.g. a company may try several types of automation to create the artefacts.
Jari
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 at 07:16, Shane Coughlan <scoughlan@...> wrote:
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