What is the AMP Project?

[mnot]

People more-or-less understand AMP the effort and what it's attempting to do.

However, as an entity, it's not clear what the scope of the effort controlled by this governance model is.

So, more crispness around the goals of the project will help people understand what it is and what to expect from it.

E.g., what are AMP's goals? Will the project be producing software, specifications, or both? Will it ever be "done"?

[mnot]

I.e., what is being governed?

[mrjoro]

Hi @mnot; this is a good question. :)

From a more technical perspective, the AMP Project encompasses the contents of a GitHub organization which includes software, documentation, the project’s marketing website, and specifications, including those that define expectations for the AMP ecosystem, and design docs.

For a slightly more philosophical take, I generally point people toward's AMP's vision and mission.

@tobie we've talked a bit about this in the past; do you have anything else you'd add here?

[tobie]

There are a few extra assets worth considering once we move the project to a foundation:

• any trademarks, original designs, etc.
• the ampproject.org domain name.
• the associated CDN which hosts the JS files.

[tobie]

In his review @triblondon made the following comment which seems strongly related to this issue:

Define what AMP 'is', legally: Define the legal status of AMP. In the blog post accompanying this governance model, it says "Additionally, we’re exploring moving AMP to a foundation in the future". So currently, decisions made 'by AMP' are expressing the will of what entity? And when it does move to a foundation, of course it is equally important to document that structure.

[mnot]

is it an explicit goal for the specifications that the AMP project produces to be standardised by an external body?

[mrjoro]

With AMP joining the OpenJS Foundation I expect there will be more crispness over what "AMP" is, since it has to be clear what is actually moving (as discussed in the OpenJS Foundation onboarding checklist).