Having also been in that call I would also like this clarification. The idea 
behind having this information available is for the recipient to make her or 
his own judgement on how accurate they expect such to be.

If this has been solved in the SPDX community that would be great. 😊 Steve’s 
comments on different ā€œstagesā€ was not something I had considered, but it does 
potentially complicate things.

BR J

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Kilbane via 
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Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2022 12:20
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Subject: [spdx] SPDX creation phase

Hi all,

One of the suggestions in today’s call for the OpenChain Telco SIG, where we’re 
discussing proposals for an SBOM standard for the Telecommunications industry, 
was:

> SBOMs conforming to the Telco SBOM Specification need to contain the 
> information when the SBOM was created in the ā€œCreatedā€ SPDX field and at what 
> phase of the software build it was created (ā€œpre-buildā€, ā€œbuild-timeā€ or 
> ā€œpost-buildā€) in the CreatorComment SPDX field.

(See 
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Telco-WG/pull/15<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=31323334-501cfaf3-313273af-454445554331-94edd4e1e4b783d0&q=1&e=3be69868-fb8d-4303-a952-19542b1e85dc&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FOpenChain-Project%2FTelco-WG%2Fpull%2F15>)

I raised a concern about ambiguity here, in that your application may be built 
from libraries that are built at an earlier stage, so the SBOM information may 
be created after some components are built, but before others. A recipient of 
the SBOM might also interpret each of these three phrases differently from the 
creator of the SBOM. I recall hearing that there have been conversations about 
many different SBOMs according to phase (source SBOM, build SBOM, deploy SBOM, 
cloud SBOM, etc.), so I wondered whether there was advice that the Telco SIG 
could lean upon, rather than trying to formulate a solution when it’s already a 
solved problem.

Apologies if this isn’t the right group.

steve




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