2021-06-22 Meeting Page

8, June 2021 — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 18:00 UTC, 20:00 CET

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RECORDING HERE (North America / Europe)

Attendees

Goals

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

Antitrust Policy

Agenda Items

Time	Item	Who	Notes
1 min	Welcome	A. Kudra
2 mins	Antitrust Policy Notice	A. Kudra
5 mins	Announcements	Chairs
10 mins	Item 1 - UFWG MOU Discussion fromKarl Kneis	Task Force Leads	Status update or preferably Show-and-tell from all task forces.
10 mins	Item 2 - Review UFWG Paper and Next Steps Jessica Townsend
10 mins	Item 3 - Discussion on Year in Review for UFWG Andre Kudra
10 mins	Decision Points	A. Kudra
10 mins	Discussion Topics	A. Kudra

MOU, Review paper, Year in review

Announcements

Public Identity Utility Projects
- Bedrock
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- IDunion
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- Sovrin
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- Indicio
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- Canacred
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EFWG maintain list of ecosystems.

Task Force SOS (Scrum of Scrums)

TF Name	Mission	Members	Status
Utility Project Implementation Guide Task Force	Create the getting started guide for prospective Utility Projects.	Lynn Gray Bendixsen (lead) Dan Gisolfi Dave McKay	*IG0029: Utility Project Guide* A new repo has been created and the TF has issued its first objective. Lynn seeks assistance on repo publishing with Mac. TF is discussing outline and questions to be answered for prospective projects. Draft Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zysi79y5vxNBxhL7yI0M6FAViC_E2VUutUfT5Eac7CA/edit?usp=sharing
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 Dave McKay	Drafting framework for evaluating public identity utilities (BP0014) (v2) Drafting v1 of three BP documents (based on feedback from interviews with decentralized PIU conveners/providers)* BP0015 - Assessing Sustainability of a PIU (v1) BP0016 - Determining Affordability of a PIU (v1) BP0017 - Assessing Alignment to a PIU Backlog Dashboard Health / Network Monitoring (Example) At future point, consider consolidating all best practices into one comprehensive document SUGGESTION: Interlocking with Saturn-V TF as a first use*r of these Best Practices.
Decentralization Task Force	Submit a BP deliverable and a design principle for what it means to be Decentralized.	Jessica Townsend (lead) Dan Gisolfi mathieu	DP0005: Decentralization by Design What are the key attributes of a Decentralized Utility? Should we consider / review the W3C DID Decentralization Rubric Consider their dimensions for evaluation Spectrum of Decentralization Working docs: Decentralized Network Best Practices and Decentralized Network Design Principles
Glossary Task Force	Generate a UFWG Glossary in collaboration with the CTWG.	RJ Reiser (lead)	Still pending CTWG process. Submissions under review.

Decision Points

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Discussion Items

UFWG is working on comprehensive guidance doc
- Document created by mathieu
- Contributions of all UFWG members required
New representative of Bedrock for UFWG required
- Outreach to Bedrock consortium
KERI whitness log
- Is there interest of exsiting L1Us to act as KERI whitness log?

Open Items

Low priority items that failed gain volunteers to champion cause.

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