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+# Go-securesystemslib Project Governance
+
+This document covers the project's governance and committer process. The
+project consists of the
+[go-securesystemslib](https://github.com/secure-systems-lab/go-securesystemslib)
+and related documentation. This governance does **NOT** apply to any other
+projects under the [secure-systems-lab](https://github.com/secure-systems-lab)
+Github organization.
+
+## Motivation
+
+The goal of the go-securesystemslib project is to be a common foundational
+library for cryptographic signing and verifying. We strongly believe a common,
+widely reviewed library, will result in a higher quality and more secure
+implementaiton. The project, while not limited to, is specifically interested in
+the signing and verification of metadata and signing envelopes. Several major
+foundation-based open source projects would like to contribute to and consume
+this library. The motiviation of this governance is to give these projects the
+confidence to invest their time towards collaboration and leverage this library
+as a critical and foundational piece of their projects. This goverance will be
+as lightweight as possible to allow the project to keep pace with rapidly
+evolving technology. It is based on an assumption of goodwill and good intent.
+
+## Code of Conduct
+
+The go-securesystemslib project abides by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's
+[code of conduct](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/code-of-conduct.md).
+An excerpt follows:
+
+> We are committed to making participation in the CNCF community a harassment-free
+experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, caste, disability,
+ethnicity, level of experience, family status, gender, gender identity and
+expression, marital status, military or veteran status, nationality, personal
+appearance, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, tribe,
+or any other dimension of diversity.
+
+The go-securesystemslib project members represent the project and their fellow
+contributors. We value our community tremendously, and we'd like to keep
+cultivating a friendly and collaborative environment for our contributors and
+users. We want everyone in the community to have a positive experience.
+
+We also interact closely with other open source groups and projects, most
+notably the [CNCF projects](https://www.cncf.io/) [in-toto](https://in-toto.io)
+and [TUF](https://theupdateframework.io).  Maintaining a productive and healthy
+collaborative relationship with projects hosted at other open source foundations
+is also a major goal.
+
+## Maintainership
+
+The project is maintained by the people indicated in [MAINTAINERS.md](MAINTAINERS.md).
+A maintainer is expected to (1) submit and review GitHub pull requests and (2)
+open issues. A maintainer has the authority to approve or reject pull requests
+submitted by contributors.
+
+## Changes in maintainership
+
+Active contributors may be offered or request to be granted maintainer status.
+This requires approval from a 2/3 majority of currently voting maintainers with at
+least a 72 hour public voting period.
+
+Maintainers may be moved to emeritus status.  This is done at the request of the
+maintainer moving to emeritus at any time.  Alternatively, moving a maintainer to
+emeritus status may be proposed by any maintainer and will be passed with a 2/3
+majority of voting maintainers with at least a 72 hour public voting period.  
+Emeritus maintainers are listed in the MAINTAINERS.md file as acknowledgment for
+their prior service to the project, but no longer have code review, voting, or other
+maintainer privileges for the project.
+
+## Project-specific dedicated maintainer roles
+
+Any project that demonstrates a commitment to consuming this library as a
+foundational piece of their own project may be eligible for a dedicated maintainer
+postion for their project. The role is allocated to a representative of a project.
+If that representative ends their relationship with the project, the project will
+be able to recommend a new dedicated maintainer. The current set of projects that
+meet these requirements are:
+
+| Project                                      | Maintainer |
+| -------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
+| [In-toto](https://github.com/in-toto)        | TBD        |
+| [TUF](https://github.com/theupdateframework) | TBD        |
+
+**Note: Dedicated Maintainer roles are still subject to general maintainer rules*
+
+## Changes in governance
+
+The maintainers supervise changes in governance.  Changes are approved by a 2/3
+majority of voting maintainers with a 72 hour public voting / discussion period.
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+# Maintainers
+
+| Name                       | GitHub          |
+|----------------------------|-----------------|
+| Marina Moore (NYU)         | [@mnm678](https://github.com/mnm678) |
+| Aditya Sirish (NYU)        | [@adityasaky](https://github.com/adityasaky) |
+| in-toto representative     | [TBD](TBD) |
+| TUF representative         | [TBD](TBD) |