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+## Project Status
+There are no future releases or work items planned for this project.
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+The output of this project has been proposed to the [OCI Reference Types Working Group](https://github.com/opencontainers/wg-reference-types) and we plan to archive this repository once the OCI releases those changes in a new version.
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+Future discussions about artifacts in OCI registries should happen in the OCI [distribution-spec](https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec) & [image-spec](https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec) repositories.
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 # ORAS Artifacts Specification
 
 [OCI Artifacts][oci-artifacts] generalized the ability to persist artifacts within an [OCI Distribution conformant][oci-conformance] registry enabling a wide range of *individual* artifacts.