Tracking issue for 1.2 Work Items

[shawnalpay]

The scope for FOCUS 1.2 was approved by the Steering Committee on November 21, 2024. The list of Work Items (both approved and considered) can be found below. Alternatively, the list of approved Work Items can be found under the 1.2 label here.

Work Items approved for 1.2

The Work Items included in 1.2 can be grouped into the following themes:

• Initial Software as a Service (SaaS) Support
  • Addition of columns to support SaaS-centric concepts and billing models
• Continued expansion of Cloud Service Provider concepts
  • Addition of Invoice ID to support invoice reconciliation use cases
  • Addition of SKU properties that are prominent / common across providers
  • Addition of Commitment Discount Unit Price and Cost
• Fixes and clarifications
  • Revisions of existing specification content to increase consistency and reduce ambiguity

Theme	Issue
SaaS	#616 Document and add support for SaaS concepts
Revisions	#314 Clarify definition for SKU ID
Revisions	#317 Add columns that describe provider entities in Billing Account and Sub Account
Revisions	#540 Address bug that allows overlapping user-defined Tag structures
Revisions	#556 Augment support for correction handling
Revisions	#557 Refine normative requirements for all existing spec content
Revisions	#617 Revise glossary definition for FOCUS dataset to include provider columns
Revisions	#636 Clarify guidance around Refunds
Revisions	#643 Formally define backward compatibility
Revisions	#647 Prevent double-counting of Commitment Discounts
CSP	#534 Add Commitment Discount Price and Cost
CSP	#615 Add Invoice ID
CSP	#619 Add SKU properties (e.g. term, tier, SKU region)

Additionally, the following Work Item shall be further explored in partnership with the Sustainability Special Interest Group (SIG), with the group's recommendations released alongside the 1.2 spec for inclusion in a future release:

#637 Add carbon footprint data for sustainability use cases

Work Items considered for 1.2

For posterity, here is the full list of Work Items that were considered for 1.2. These Work Items sorted by 👍 reactions can be found here.

#72 Facilitate provider-performed shared cost allocation
#314 Clarify definition for SKU ID
#317 Add columns that describe provider entities in Billing Account and Sub Account
#406 Facilitate Coverage % KPI by tracking commitment-eligible cost
#510 Add Service Model (e.g IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
#520 Add support for experimental datapoints
#534 Expose Commitment Discount price and cost to facilitate forecasting and ESR KPI
#540 Address bug that allows overlapping user-defined Tag structures
#556 Augment support for correction handling
#557 Refine normative requirements for all existing spec content
#608 Add SKU categories / hierarchy / taxonomy
#610 Determine principles for primitives vs derivatives
#613 Guidance for incorporation of on-premises cost and usage
#614 Add metadata to describe data recency
#615 Add Invoice ID
#616 Document and add support for SaaS concepts
#617 Revise glossary definition for FOCUS dataset to include provider columns
#618 Add Account / Resource hierarchy attributes
#619 Add SKU properties (e.g. term, tier, SKU region)
#634 Add appendix for commitment size flexibility
#636 Clarify guidance around Refunds
#637 Add carbon footprint data for sustainability use cases
#643 Formally define backward compatibility
#647 Prevent double-counting of commitment discounts

[jpradocueva]

### Action Items from Maintainers' call on Oct 21:

• [#605] Shawn @shawnalpay to continue backlog curation.
• [#611] Stakeholders to provide feedback on prioritized items.

Action Items TF-1 call on Oct 22:

• [#611] Team members: Review assigned items and add practical examples.
• [#613] Alex @ahullah : Prepare use cases for non-cloud asset guidance and follow up with Karl for insights into prior work on on-prem perspectives.

[jpradocueva]

Action Items from the Members' call on November 21:

• [#611] Shawn, @shawnalpay : Finalize and present the 1.2 work item proposal to the steering committee.