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Contribute to OMI

Architectural Stewardship: Contributing to the OMI

The advancement of a truly composable and interoperable web is a collaborative mission that transcends individual projects or proprietary interests. Contribution to the Open Microservice Initiative (OMI) is an act of architectural stewardship—a commitment to codifying the standards that will eliminate redundant engineering for generations to come. We invite architects, engineers, and domain experts to participate in the formalization of this universal backend protocol.

The Avenues of Contribution

Participation in the OMI is organized into three primary streams, ensuring that both technical implementation and conceptual framework receive rigorous oversight:

  • Domain Ontology Development: We seek domain experts to help define the “Standardized Data Objects” for specific industries. Whether it is financial orchestration, healthcare informatics, or logistics telemetry, your expertise is required to draft the schemas that will become the global standard for these domains.

  • Technical Tooling & Specifications: Help us build the mechanical foundation of the initiative. This includes contributing to the OMI Compliance CLI, developing reference implementations in various languages, and refining the technical specifications for cross-cutting concerns like the Standardized Webhook Envelope (SWE).

  • Strategic Advocacy & Adoption: Standards only succeed through ubiquity. We seek contributors to develop case studies, white papers, and transition guides that help organizations move from bespoke service construction to OMI-compliant assembly.

The RFC Process: From Proposal to Protocol

To maintain the integrity of the OMI specification, all changes to the Core or Extended Principles, as well as the addition of new Domain Ontologies, must pass through the Request for Comments (RFC) process.

  • Submission: Propose a new standard or modification via a structured RFC document.

  • Deliberation: The community and the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) perform a rigorous peer review, focusing on semantic clarity and architectural autonomy.

  • Ratification: Upon consensus, the proposal is integrated into the OMI Documentation and assigned a versioned status within the formal specification.

The OMI Vision