[swgillespie]

This /is/ geared heavily towards improving the .NET Core story. The purpose of this spec is to provide library authors with a set of APIs that they can expect will exist on .NET Standard 2.0-implementing runtimes (a list of which are supplied). This allows library authors to write code that works when deployed across multiple implementations and it allows application writers to trust that their dependencies will work on the platform of their choice.

Two major implementations of .NET Standard 2.0 are the traditional .NET Framework and .NET Core, so libraries targeting .NET Standard 2.0 can be used on both platforms without modification.