2020-11-24 Meeting Page

2020-11-24 Meeting Page

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

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RECORDING (North America / Europe)

Attendees

  • @Andre Kudra

  • @mathieu

  • @Claudia Grytz

  • @Lynn Gray Bendixsen

  • Sarah Olfert

  • @Drummond Reed

  • @Eric Vinton

  • @Cameron Boozarjomehri

  • @Scott Perry

Goals

  • Assign action items for next meeting

  • Establish work plan for WG deliverables and workflow guidance

  • Gather agenda suggestions for next meeting

Agenda Items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

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



Announcement Details

None

Utility Projects

Bedrock

IDunion

Sovrin

Indicio

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

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

Decision Points

None

Discussion Topics

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
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
 

Open Items

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