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Discuss possibility of moving living schemas to dedicated repos

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the related comment in pull request #678 and the current treatment of the crypto definitions and behavior taxonomy. Clarify whether living schemas should move to dedicated repositories, what would belong in each repository, and what decision would count as done.

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Description

This issue is to discuss the possibility of having separate repos for living schemas such as the crypto defs and behavior taxonomy.

Related to this comment:

Originally posted by @stevespringett in https://github.com/CycloneDX/specification/pull/678#discussion_r3745251689

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