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-# toc
-Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)
+# CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)
+
+The CNCF TOC is the technical governing body of the CNCF Foundation. It admits and oversees all projects in the CNCF Foundation and has a mandate to facilitate driving neutral consensus for:
+* defining and maintaining the technical vision for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
+* approving new projects within the scope for CNCF set by the Governing Board, and create a conceptual architecture for the projects,aligning projects, removing or archiving projects,
+* accepting feedback from end user committee and map to projects,
+* aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects, if any.