2020-11-10 Meeting Page

10, November 2020 — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 18:00 UTC, 19:00 CET

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Time	Item	Who	Notes
1 min	Welcome	A. Kudra
2 mins	Antitrust Policy Notice	A. Kudra
5 mins	New Introductions	A. Kudra	None
2 mins	Review / Approve minutes from last meeting (27-Oct-2020)	A. Kudra	Approved by Consensus
10 mins	Announcements	D. Gisolfi
20 mins	Utility Project Status Updates	Utility Representatives
5 mins	Task Force SOS	A. Kudra
10 mins	Decision Points	D. Gisolfi
10 mins	Discussion Topics	D. Gisolfi
10 mins	Review Action and Open Items	A. Kudra
10 mins	Q&A	A. Kudra

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).

Bedrock
1. Call for interested companies that may be interested in joining. Send email request to Dan Gisolfi stating company name and contact email address.
2. 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.
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.

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: 5 items from Utility interviews available here
Decentralization Best Practice Task Force	Submit a BP deliverable for what it means to be Decentralized.	xxx (lead)	What are the key attributes of a Decentralized Utility? Should we consider / review the W3C DID Decentralization Rubric Consider their dimensions for evaluation
Glossary Task Force	Generate a UFWG Glossary in collaboration with the CTWG.	RJ Reiser (lead)	Lead added in Oct-27 meeting

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

Call-for-Projects
- All Layer 1 Project Stories need to be documented in GitHub
- Any new projects?
Education Topics for Presentations to be Scheduled
- None
Set Agenda for next meeting

Low priority items that failed gain volunteers to champion cause.

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