[philips]

No, appc isn't moribund; the appc community continues to maintain the spec[1][2]. Our hope is that the best parts of the appc will be added into the OCI for a shared industry standard. And today I am optimistic the OCI will do that.

The OCI membership includes important parties in the ecosystem from container engine implementers to public providers with container registries: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Docker, CoreOS, Red Hat, and many others. This means that we have good a organizational setup to get a single industry standard. It is worth the additional effort to obtain that goal for the industry.

tl;dr appc is a source of inspiration for the OCI work and will continue to be maintained and available in rkt, Quay, and others. We have a good shot at an industry standard for container images. And we want to make that successful even if it requires some initial duplicated effort.

[1] https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec#faq

[2] https://coreos.com/blog/making-sense-of-standards.html

(CTO of CoreOS, OCI Technical Oversight Board member)

[tyingq]

Your first link says this:

>>Q: What happens to AppC or Docker Image Formats?

>>A: Existing formats can continue to be a proving ground for technologies, as needed...

Sounds pretty moribund to me. It exists only if it wants to be a proving ground, "as needed".

[pekk]

That depends on what happens with OCI.