Review of Public Comments and Next Steps: Artificial Intelligence System Bill of Materials – Compliance Management Guide for the Supply Chain

Public Comment Period Closed:

The OpenChain AI Work Group collaboratively produced a draft guide to identify key process points for a quality AI compliance program:

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/blob/master/AI-SBOM-Compliance/en/Artificial-Intelligence-System-Bill-of-Materials-Compliance-Management-Guide.md

• https://openchainproject.org/news/2025/07/07/public-comments-ai-system-bill-of-materials

Next Steps:

1. The AI Work Group, Governing Board, Steering Committee will review comments received:
   • [Improvement] Suggestion for Section 3.6 (Transparency obligations) of the AI SBOM Guide:
     https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/issues/101
   • [Improvement] [AI-SBOM-Compliance] In section 3.8 “Effectively Resourced,” I would like to request the requirement for “executive signature.”:
     https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/issues/102
2. The Governing Board will determine a release date for the guide.

Conclusion:

It is requested that the AI Work Group members provide any responses or thoughts on the two comments received by Close of Business CEST on the 26th of August, so that the Governing Board can undertake their review and make their decision at the Q3 Governing Board meeting in Amsterdam on the 27th of August.

YOU CAN SUBMIT A COMMENT BY:

1. Contributing to the open issues on the OpenChain Project Reference Library GitHub Repository:
   https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/issues
2. Emailing the OpenChain AI Work Group mailing list:
   https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/ai