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-### Status: alpha
+### Status: beta
 
 ## What is the scope of this project?
 
 cri-o is meant to provide an integration path between OCI conformant runtimes and the kubelet.
-Specifically, it implements the Kubelet Container Runtime Interface (CRI) using OCI conformant runtimes.
+Specifically, it implements the Kubelet [Container Runtime Interface (CRI)](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/container-runtime-interface.md) using OCI conformant runtimes.
 The scope of cri-o is tied to the scope of the CRI.
 
 At a high level, we expect the scope of cri-o to be restricted to the following functionalities: