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24, November 2020  — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 CET

Send an email to utility-foundry-wg@lists.trustoverip.org to request a calendar invite (you can subscribe to the mailing list at lists.trustoverip.org).

RECORDING (North America / Europe)

Attendees

• Andre Kudra
• mathieuUser 9aee4
• Claudia Grytz
• Lynn Gray BendixsenRJ Reiser
• Sarah Olfert
• Drummond Reed
• @Kaliya 
• @Jessica Townsend
• Drummond ReedEric Vinton
• User 9aee4
• Scott Perry

Goals

• Assign action items for next meeting
• Establish work plan for WG deliverables and workflow guidance
• Gather agenda suggestions for next meeting

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Announcement Details

•  Updated Utility List as per Issue 17
•  Update from discussion regarding Kochi Org Book (KOB) with Vinod Panicker: Understanding is that KOB will have a dedicated Hyperledger Indy utility at some point (currently prototyping with Sovrin).
• None

Utility Projects

•  Bedrock
  • Call for interested companies that may be interested in joining. Send email request to Dan Gisolfi stating company name and contact email address.
  • Soft Launch Scheduled for 18 Nov 2020.
  •  IDunion 
    Competition phase in final stages, proposal has been handed in to German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs for execution phase. Final project report is work in progress. Activities on IDunion legal entity continue.
    
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    Sovrin
    

  •  Indicio 
    Indicio TestNet had successful "first upgrade" last week. DemoNet scheduled to be "live" by the end of next week, and MainNet scheduled to be "live" by the end of the year. Official announcements are forthcoming. 

  UFWG APAC Interlock

  •  TBD
  • • No update
  •  IDunion
    • No update
  •  Sovrin
    
    • "Principles of SSI" under finalization, to be officially released soon, support from other Utilities appreciated
  •  Indicio
    • Launch of MainNet delayed due to genesis node issues, recommendations for number of nodes to be included in best practices

  UFWG APAC Interlock

  •  Meeting did not happen due to very few attendees today
  •  Vinod Panicker confirmed in prep meeting that KOB is planning a Utility, KOB seeking ways to govern Utilitiy without legal entity

  Task Force SOS (Scrum of Scrums)

  TF Name	Mission	Members	Status
  UFWG deliverables	Define and communicate to our UFWG deliverables and process.	mathieu  (lead)  Dan Gisolfi  Andre Kudra	Drafted presentation available here  What are the deliverables of the UFWG?   Who are the audience for each deliverable?  What is our deliverable process?
  Best Practices Task Force	Analyze Project Interviews, establish list of Best Practices and submit each BP using ToIP Deliverables Process.	mathieu  (lead)  Dan Gisolfi  Claudia Grytz Lynn Gray Bendixsen Review Best Practices List:  @Sarah Olfert	Drafting v1 of three BP documents based on feedback from interviews with decentralized identity utility conveners/providers  BP0011-Recommendations for creating and managing a Public Identity Utility  5 items from Utility interviews available here  At future point, consider consolidating all best practices into one comprehensive document
  Decentralization Task Force	Submit a BP deliverable and a design principle for what it means to be Decentralized.	Jessica Townsend  (lead)	What are the key attributes of a Decentralized Utility?  Should we consider / review the W3C DID Decentralization Rubric  Consider their dimensions for evaluation Lead decided in Oct-27 meeting, added in Nov-10 meeting
  Glossary Task Force	Generate a UFWG Glossary in collaboration with the CTWG.	RJ Reiser (lead)	Lead added in Oct-27 meeting

  Decision Points

  •  None

  Discussion Topics

  •  Use of Kanban Boards via Trello to enable Task Forces to manage work and provide status
    •  Glossary Task Force has volunteered to test RJ Reiser
    •  Initial process model verified today with Trello; New boards and member invites forthcoming.
      •  Any volunteers to help define workflow?
  •  Triage GitHub Issues
  • Corda network for identity, may be relevant to include as Utility project
    •  Scott Perry will check with Corda regarding their identity roadmap (Corda is Sovrin Steward), mathieu will send info to Scott
  •  Lissi is a project run by Main Incubator (Commerzbank subsidiary), Main Incubator is leading "SSI for Germany" (SSI4DE) consortium, SSI4DE launched IDunion Hyperledger Indy network (currently test mode)

  Action items

  •  Call-for-Projects Projects
    •  All Layer 1 Project Stories need to be documented in GitHub
    •  Any new projects?  → See Discussion Topics
  •  Education Topics for Presentations to be Scheduled
    
    •  None
  •  Set Agenda for next meeting
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  •  Andre Kudra will check with German UFWG community if they can entertain a German ToIP meeting
  •  Horizontal Interop
    
    •  Establish a list of applicable use cases that would justify research
    •  Draft a working definition to be submitted as Issues to the Concepts and Terminology WG Repo
  •  UFWG Sandbox Utility
    •   The members of the UFWG need to gain experience before writing guidelines and best practices.
    •  Challenge: Create a Sample Utility comprised of 3-5 nodes for testing purposes using the Blockchain Automation Framework (BAF)
    •  Goal: Leverage this research exercise as a way to create BAF artifacts for Hyperledger Indy
    •  Tools: Bootstrapping Node Hosting - Learn BAF
  •  Education Topics
    •  Trustbloc - no immediate need, can be re-raised if interest comes up
    •  KochiOrgBook 
      •  David LuchukConnect with Vinod Panicker to arrange meeting