2021-01-05 Meeting Page

2021-01-05 Meeting Page

05, January 2021  — 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

  • @Chris B

  • @Drummond Reed

  • @Scott Perry

  • @JessicaTownsend

  • @Lynn Gray Bendixsen

  • @Darrell O'Donnell

  • @Cameron Boozarjomehri

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

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(s) (08-Dec-2020)

A. Kudra

  • Approved via consensus

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 of APAC group is on Thursday, Jan-7 2021, 8 am CET
@Vinod Panicker confirmed in prep meeting that KOB is planning a Utility, KOB seeking ways to govern Utility 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

(In progress) Drafting framework for evaluating public identity utilities
(In progress) Drafting v1 of three BP documents (based on feedback from interviews with decentralized PIU conveners/providers)

BP0011 - Assessing Sustainability of a PIU
BP0012 - Determining Affordability of a PIU
BP0013 - Assessing Alignment to a PIU
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

Utility Project List
08-Dec-2020 Decision
KOB and CanaCred utilities will be unlisted until criteria is resolved. Representation in UFWG requested.
@Dan Gisolfiheld discussion with @Vinod Panicker; PR needs to be updated as it will be rejected in current form.
Decision: Merge rejected; Pending updates.
CanaCred story in current form does not answer basic questions
Only 1 convener and no listed sponsors
Is the Utility at Convene Phase?
Who are the Conveners and/or Sponsors?
Why do we need a Utility?
What is unique about the desired Utility?
Who will participate?
What are the common stakeholder motivators?
What are the common stakeholder requirements?
 
Decision: Merge approved as it is not for a listing but the first step in getting the story in place. 

Discussion Topics

None

Action items

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
 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