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[Initiative]: White Paper on Runtime Conditions Profiles Specification

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Since Sep 8, 2026.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Read the CNCF technical paper process guide linked in the issue, then review initiative #1797 and draft PR #2241 to understand the existing scope and material. Use the tracking document for meeting and progress updates and coordinate with the listed contacts. Done means a reviewed and published CNCF white paper that incorporates appropriate material without assuming endorsement of the current specification.

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Description

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Name

White Paper on Runtime Conditions Profiles Specification

Short description

Develop and publish a CNCF white paper on Runtime Conditions Profiles Specification, building on initiative #1797 and the draft submitted in PR #2241.

Responsible group

TAG Developer Experience

Does the initiative belong to a subproject?

No

Subproject name

No response

Primary contact

[email protected]

Additional contacts

Kevin Dubois
Sean McGinnis
Daniel Oh

Initiative description

This initiative builds on initiative #1797, which established the problem space and initiated work on a project-agnostic specification for declaring application integration dependencies.

Its purpose is to take the resulting work—particularly the draft submitted in PR #2241—through the CNCF white-paper process. This will include refining the scope and content, broadening community review and authorship, validating the paper’s claims and ecosystem positioning, and completing the necessary technical and editorial review.

The intended final deliverable is a published CNCF white paper incorporating appropriate material from the existing draft.

This initiative does not presume CNCF endorsement of the current Runtime Conditions spec or implementations, nor does it seek to publish PR #2241 unchanged.

Furthermore, as more work is done to publicize socialize the RCProfiles spec, including discussions with alternative specs (e.g. the OCM Spec), the direction of the paper may change to focus more on the broader solution ecosystem.

Deliverable(s) or exit criteria

Publication, through the CNCF technical paper process, of a CNCF white paper that builds on initiative #1797 and incorporates appropriate material from PR #2241.

Tracking document for meeting and progress

https://notes.cncf.io/rM8LSSM_S8Gg5aF2ZBxlmA

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Merged PRs (30d)
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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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