<p>This <strong>ETSI portal for SAREF</strong> exposes the SAREF ontologies and points to the different
SAREF-related deliverables.</p>
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<h2>The SAREF Development Framework and Workflow</h2>
<divclass="alert-warning">NOTE: The text in this page is taken from <ahref="https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/103600_103699/103673/">ETSI TS 103 673</a>, and therefore falls under the <ahref="https://www.etsi.org/intellectual-property-rights">ETSI IPR Policy</a></div>
<p>The value of SAREF is strongly correlated with the size of its community of users; therefore the SAREF
ontologies are available and documented on the Web. As such, SAREF users and the industry actors can be
attracted to SAREF with clear documentation and a clear indication about how to provide their input and the
kind of input that they can provide.</p>
<p>The ETSI members that contribute to SAREF are able to get benefit from feedback coming from its open
community of industrial users, to better plan new evolution of the current and future extensions, and to
reduce the costs of developing these extensions. That being said, the development and monitoring of SAREF lies
in ETSI's hands to ensure that high quality standards are met, and users that provide feedback have to
understand the implication in terms of IPR. The publication and/or use of such feedback has to therefore be
controlled by ETSI, but the possibility to provide feedback is open to the world.</p>
<p>Document ETSI TS 103 673 <ahref="#[i.1]">[i.1]</a> defines the development framework for the SAREF ontology
and its extensions (referred to in a general way as SAREF projects) based on the <a
href="https://saref.etsi.org/sources/">ETSI forge</a>. The SAREF development framework consists of the
actors, software, and infrastructure that support the SAREF development workflows. ETSI TS 103 673 defines the
different actors involved in the development of SAREF, and the workflows to be followed for new SAREF project
versions, SAREF project version development, and SAREF project release. This document also defines how SAREF
project versions are specified and documented in the SAREF public forge. The accompanying <a
href="https://saref.etsi.org/sources/saref-pipeline">SAREF pipeline software</a> enables to automatically
check the conformance of SAREF project versions with respect to the this document. ETSI TS 103 673, the SAREF
pipeline, and the SAREF public portal, enable the SAREF developers to speed up the development of SAREF and
its extensions as well as the SAREF community of users to actively contribute in the development. The SAREF
development framework and workflow is based on the requirements and guidelines defined in the associated ETSI
TR 103 608 <ahref="#[i.2]">[i.2]</a>.</p>
<p>ETSI TS 103 673 V1.1.1 <ahref="#[i.3]">[i.3]</a> has been developed in the context of the <a
href="https://portal.etsi.org/STF/STFs/STFHomePages/STF578.aspx">STF 578</a>, which followed the <a
href="https://portal.etsi.org/STF/STFs/STFHomePages/STF556.aspx">STF 556</a>. STF 578 was established with
the goal to consolidate SAREF and its community of industrial users based on the experience of the <a
