2020-11-10 Meeting Page

2020-11-10 Meeting Page

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

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Recording (North America / Europe)

Attendees

  • @Dan Gisolfi

  • @Andre Kudra

  • @mathieu

  • @Cameron Boozarjomehri

  • @Claudia Grytz

  • @Lynn Gray Bendixsen

  • @RJ Reiser

  • @Sarah Olfert

  • @Kaliya 

  • @Jessica Townsend

  • @Drummond Reed

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 (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

 

Announcement Details

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).

Utility Projects

Bedrock

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. 

UFWG APAC Interlock

TBD

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

  • Review Best Practices List: 

    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?

Action items

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
 

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