Merge pull request #2431 from tallclair/sig-auth-charter-v2

sig-auth charter (v2)

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diff --git a/sig-auth/README.md b/sig-auth/README.md
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 Covers improvements to Kubernetes authorization, authentication, and cluster security policy.
 
+The [charter](charter.md) defines the scope and governance of the Auth Special Interest Group.
+
 ## Meetings
 * Regular SIG Meeting: [Wednesdays at 11:00 PT (Pacific Time)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FQx0BPlkkl1Bn0c9ocVBxYIKojpmrS1CFP5h0DI68AE/edit) (biweekly). [Convert to your timezone](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=11:00&tz=PT%20%28Pacific%20Time%29).
   * [Meeting notes and Agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1woLGRoONE3EBVx-wTb4pvp4CI7tmLZ6lS26VTbosLKM/edit#).
diff --git a/sig-auth/charter.md b/sig-auth/charter.md
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+# SIG Auth Charter
+
+This charter adheres to the conventions described in the [Kubernetes Charter README] and uses
+the Roles and Organization Management outlined in [sig-governance].
+
+## Scope
+
+SIG Auth is responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of features in
+Kubernetes that control and protect access to the API and other core components. This includes
+authentication and authorization, but also encompasses features like auditing and some security
+policy (see below).
+
+### In scope
+
+Link to SIG section in [sigs.yaml]
+
+#### Code, Binaries and Services
+
+- Kubernetes authentication, authorization, audit and security policy features. Examples
+  include:
+    - Authentication, authorization and audit interfaces and extension points
+    - Authentication implementations (service accounts, OIDC, authenticating proxy, webhook,
+      ...)
+    - Authorizer implementations (RBAC + default policy, Node + default policy, webhook, ...)
+    - Security-related admission plugins (NodeRestriction, ServiceAccount, PodSecurityPolicy,
+      ImagePolicy, etc)
+- The mechanisms to protect confidentiality/integrity of API data. Examples include:
+    - Capability for encryption at rest
+    - Capability for secure communication between components
+    - Ensuring users and components can operate with appropriately scoped permissions
+
+#### Cross-cutting and Externally Facing Processes
+
+- Consult with other SIGs and the community on how to apply mechanisms owned by SIG
+  Auth. Examples include:
+    - Review privilege escalation implications of feature and API designs
+    - Core component authentication & authorization (apiserver, kubelet, controller-manager,
+      and scheduler)
+    - Local-storage volume deployment authentication
+    - Cloud provider authorization policy
+    - Container runtime streaming (exec/attach/port-forward) authentication
+    - Best practices for hardening add-ons or other external integrations
+
+### Out of scope
+
+- Reporting of specific vulnerabilities in Kubernetes. Please report using these instructions:
+  https://kubernetes.io/security/
+- General security discussion. Examples of topics that are out of scope for SIG-auth include:
+  - Protection of volume data, container ephemeral data, and other non-API data (prefer: sig-storage
+    and sig-node)
+  - Container isolation (prefer: sig-node and sig-networking)
+  - Bug bounty (prefer: product security team)
+  - Resource quota (prefer: sig-scheduling)
+  - Resource availability / DOS protection (prefer: sig-apimachinery, sig-network, sig-node)
+
+## Roles and Organization Management
+
+This sig follows adheres to the Roles and Organization Management outlined in [sig-governance]
+and opts-in to updates and modifications to [sig-governance].
+
+### Subproject Creation
+
+SIG Auth delegates subproject approval to Technical Leads. See [Subproject creation - Option 1].
+
+
+[sig-governance]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/committee-steering/governance/sig-governance.md
+[sigs.yaml]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sigs.yaml#L250
+[Kubernetes Charter README]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/committee-steering/governance/README.md
+[Subproject creation - Option 1]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/committee-steering/governance/sig-governance.md#subproject-creation
diff --git a/sigs.yaml b/sigs.yaml
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@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ sigs:
     mission_statement: >
       Covers improvements to Kubernetes authorization, authentication, and
       cluster security policy.
-    charter_link:
+    charter_link: charter.md
     label: auth
     leadership:
       chairs: