Support for sustainability attributes

[prabhu]

Inspired by this blog on the web sustainability, it would be nice to tag components and services based on factors such as (replicated from the blog):

• carbon emissions
• water usage
• e-waste management
• material extraction
• chemical pollution
• social inequality and climate justice

Capturing this information in a structured manner can help organizations and individuals make informed decisions when it comes to vendor or package selection, benchmarking against peers, or capturing the current and to-be state for maturing in sustainability.

Components and Services can be independently attested and verified for sustainability.

[stevespringett]

Could we start capturing this via properties? There seems to be a lot of possible use cases and an extremely large taxonomy of different types of data that could potentially be captured. My thinking is that if we wait to identify them all, it will be a multi-year process. We could with a small set of properties and expand over time independent of the specification. Once completely flushed out, we could standardize their representation in the specification itself.

[jkowalleck]

Want to get going with property taxonomy? come to https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-property-taxonomy and have some peers involved.

[prabhu]

My cunning plan is to get some data from AWS and Google Cloud users and start creating a list of cloud services' carbon emissions to start with.

https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-customer-carbon-footprint-tool/ https://cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint?hl=en