There was a significant market impact with the release of Version 1.1 of the Telco SBOM Quality Guide:
https://openchainproject.org/featured/2025/05/09/openchain-telco-sbom-guide-version-1-1-now-available
This lead to discussions about how we can make an explicitly cross-industry guide covering the topics of *how* we determine what is quality, and *how* we manage this across multiple industries. This lead to the development of a ”thinking” document considering how a cross-industry, cross-format SBOM quality could be structured:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/SBOM-sg/blob/main/Cross-Industry-SBOM-Quality-Guide/en/Cross-Industry-SBOM-Quality-Guide.md
As of last week, permission was given by the OpenChain Governing Board for the SBOM Study Group to turn into a full OpenChain Work Group, and to explicitly work on turning the thinking document into an official OpenChain guide for everyone. The formal announcement regarding the SBOM Study Group evolution will be made later this week, and meanwhile, you can check out a detailed presentation on the topic of a cross-industry SBOM Quality Guide in the slides below.
Check Out The Slides:
Learn More About This Study (and soon Work) Group:
Our SBOM Study Group brings all our various SBOM-related activities together and helps answer the question of “how do we use SBOMs in production, large-scale and complex supply chains?” Our original kick-off call has all the details.
Get Involved:
Everyone is welcome to be part of this study group! OpenChain has free, open access to all its work groups and study groups. Just turn up, and listen in, and contribute comments, ideas and suggestions.
✉️ We have a dedicated mailing list:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/sbom
💻 We have a dedicated GitHub Repo:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/SBOM-sg
Attend Future Meetings:
You can find and get the dial-in details for all future meetings from our participate page here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/participate
