Add community charter

docs/README.md

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 If you know of other implementations of registries or clients (the writer of this documentation
 seems to recall some that she cannot remember) please [let us know](https://github.com/singularityhub/library-api/issues)
 or [open a pull request](https://github.com/singularityhub/library-api) to add it.
+
+## Community standard
+
+Since this is a community standard, anyone in the community is invited to participate!
+Suggestions for improvements are welcome through
+[github issues](https://github.com/singularityhub/library-api/issues)
+or [pull requests](https://github.com/singularityhub/library-api/pulls).
+Changes to the specification will be reviewed and approved by people from the community
+as described in the [community charter](community_charter.md).

docs/community_charter.md

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+# Container Library API Standard Community Charter
+
+The Container Library API Standard Community is made up of people who
+are interested in the specification for the API.
+Standards usually evolve, so this charter describes the process for
+making that happen.
+The community's intention is to evolve the standard in compatible ways
+so older implementations can continue to work.
+
+## Approving changes
+
+In order to avoid letting the specification be controlled by a single
+individual or company, changes to the specification and to this charter
+are reviewed by a set of people designated as "Maintainers."
+There are 3 to 5 Maintainers, each from separate organizations.
+Maintainers are "members" in the 
+[github repository](https://github.com/singularityhub/library-api)
+so they can use GitHub tools to mark pull requests as "Approved" or
+"Changes requested."
+Discussions will be public in issues or pull requests in that repository.
+Maintainers will watch the GitHub repository for all activity.
+Every effort will be made to achieve a consensus among the Maintainers,
+but if consensus cannot be reached, changes can still be accepted if a
+majority of the Maintainers agree.
+
+## Adding Maintainers
+
+If there are less than the maximum number of Maintainers and someone else volunteers,
+as long as the new person is from a different organization,
+a new approver can be added when a majority of the existing Approvers agree.
+
+## Removing Maintainers
+
+People can be removed from the current list of Maintainers if they request to be removed.
+
+In addition, an Maintainer can be removed if for some reason the Maintainer stops
+responding for a period of 2 months or more,
+and the remaining Maintainers all agree.
+
+## Current list of Maintainers
+
+- [@DrDaveD](https://github.com/DrDaveD), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
+- [@GodloveD](https://github.com/GodloveD), National Institute of Health
+- [@tri-adam](https://github.com/tri-adam), Sylabs
+- [@vsoch](https://github.com/vsoch), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory