2020-11-24 Meeting Page

24, November 2020 — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 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 (10-Nov-2020)	A. Kudra	Delayed to next meeting due to only a few attendees
10 mins	Announcements	A. Kudra
20 mins	Utility Project Status Updates	Utility Representatives
5 mins	Task Force SOS	M. Glaude
10 mins	Decision Points	A. Kudra
10 mins	Discussion Topics	A. Kudra
10 mins	Review Action and Open Items	A. Kudra
10 mins	Q&A	A. Kudra

Bedrock
- 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

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

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 @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

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)

Call-for-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

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