CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

The CNCF TOC is the technical governing body of the CNCF. It admits and oversees all projects in the CNCF and has a mandate to facilitate driving neutral consensus for:

• defining and maintaining the technical vision and principles for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
• approving new projects within the scope of the CNCF set by the Governing Board (GB), creating a conceptual architecture for the projects, aligning projects, removing or archiving projects,
• accepting feedback from end user technical advisory board and map to projects,
• aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects, if any.

TOC Technical Vision

The technical direction of the ecosystem is problem-centric. We encourage and support our projects to solve problems faced by adopters, to build the right ecosystem for innovation and embrace changes in the broader technical landscape. To exercise and increase the expertise within the technical community to compose solutions that stand the test of time.

Members

• Ricardo Rocha (term: term: 2 years - start date: 2/4/2024 - 2/4/2026) [EndUser-appointed]
• Chad Beaudin (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [EndUser-appointed]
• Emily Fox (term: 2 years - start date: 2/4/2024 - 3/4/2026) [GB-appointed]
• Katie Gamanji (term: 2 years - start date: 3/18/2022 - 2/4/2026) [GB-appointed]
• Lin Sun (term: 2 years - start date 2/4/2024 - 2/4/2026) [GB-appointed]
• Faseela K (term: 2 years 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed]
• Jeremy Rickard (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed]
• Karena Angell (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed][TOC Chair]
• Kevin Wang (term: 2 years - start date 2/4/2024 - 2/4/2026) [Maintainer-appointed]
• Davanum Srinivas (term: 2 years - start date: 2/16/2024 - 2/16/2026) [TOC-appointed]
• Alex Chircop (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [TOC-appointed]

TOC Shadows

• Ricardo Aravena (term: 1 year - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2026) [GB-appointed][shadow]
• Kevin Klues (term: 1 year - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2026) [TOC-appointed][shadow]

Election schedule

Projects

See the current CNCF projects and a description of project maturity levels (Sandbox, Incubating, Graduated).

The CNCF provides a list of services for incubating and graduated projects hosted in the foundation. A subset of these services is also available for Sandbox level projects.

Do you want to contribute to a project? We have a guide to get you started.

If you would like to know more about the project lifecycle we use, we have outlined the process. If you have any questions or don't know where to start, please open an issue.

Meeting Time

The TOC meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at 8AM PT (USA Pacific Time; Convert to local time zone).

https://zoom.us/j/967220397 Passcode: 77777

Or Telephone:

Dial:
+1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or
+1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)

+1 855 880 1246 (US Toll Free)
+1 877 369 0926 (US Toll Free)

International numbers available here.

Meeting ID: 263 858 603

NOTE: Please use *6 to mute/un-mute your phone during the call

Here is a Google calendar for all public CNCF events. This calendar is also available on the CNCF Website

Meeting Agenda and Minutes

• Meeting Working Doc. This includes minutes from previous meetings.
• Meeting agenda and presentations.
• Archive of community presentations
• CNCF TOC Playlist on YouTube

Mailing List

Public mailing list for the CNCF TOC: cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io

The public mailing archive: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc

Details to join this public mailing list: https://lists.cncf.io/mailman/listinfo/cncf-toc

In case you need to reach the CNCF TOC on sensitive issues, please email us at: cncf-private-toc@lists.cncf.io

Slack

Public CNCF TOC channel: Join the CNCF slack and we are reachable at #toc.

Voting

This is our voting policy. Only TOC members can cast binding votes. (+1 Binding)

Technical Advisory Groups

The TOC has approved the formation of TAGs. Currently, the following Technical Advisory Groups are active:

• TAG-Security
• TAG-Storage
• TAG-App-Delivery
• TAG-Network
• TAG-Runtime
• TAG Contributor Strategy
• TAG Observability
• TAG Environmental Sustainability

Working Groups

The TOC has created the following working groups to investigate and discuss the following topics:

Working Group	Chair	Meeting Time	Minutes/Recordings
CI		Inactive	Youtube
Serverless	Ken Owens	Thu of every week at 9AM PT	Youtube

All meetings are on the public CNCF calendar: https://goo.gl/eyutah