2020-09-01 Meeting Page

2020-09-01 Meeting Page

01, September 2020 — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 18:00 UTC, 20:00 CET

Send an email to utility-foundry-wg@lists.trustoverip.org to request a calendar invite (you can subscribe to the mailing list at lists.trustoverip.org).

Recording (North America / Europe): https://zoom.us/rec/share/ra_UfI--t55_lZMM6eIxl3wTiUWH8eYDaDlfM3uIeNV_3b_5epef246gNBCxNpx-.rxeUPoXxMn6QpjXM

Recording (APAC): https://zoom.us/rec/share/u6_cGKT7gSADFw6gsTSukYa7imx8ZO3TWMhLOSX19zsrqRI_XmnmRIPseEYKsY7m.eZxk87RXO9YatkRV

 

Attendees

  • @Dan Gisolfi

  • @Andre Kudra (both slots)

  • @Vinod Panicker (APAC slot)

  • @sankarshan (APAC slot)

  • @Claudia Grytz (both slots)

  • @Adrian Doerk

  • @Karen Hand 

  • @Karl Kneis

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

2 mins

Review / Approve minutes from last meeting (04-Aug-2020)

A. Kudra

  • Motioner: Dan Gisolfi

  • Second: Karl Kneis

  • Approval: Confirmed

10 mins

Announcements

D. Gisolfi

 

20 mins

Utility Project Status Updates

Utility Representatives

 

5 mins

UFWG APAC Interlock

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

Indy Interop-athon Conference Sep 1-2: Agenda
Education Meetings
Blockchain Automation Framework: YET-TO-BE-RESCHEDULED. See Slack Channel and Mailing List for details.
Aries DID Ledger Architecture: Scheduled for 14-Sep-2020; See Slack Channel and Mailing List for details.
Decentralized DID Namespace Registry (DDNR): Scheduled for 23 September 2020See Slack Channel and Mailing List for details.
Reminders
Terminology: All terminology suggestions should be submitted as Issues to the Concepts and Terminology WG Repo
Technology Projects

Hyperledger Indy: easy tasks for a new contributor to get started. Contact @Richard Esplinif you want additional guidance on learning how to be a contributor. 

Utility Projects

Bedrock

IDunion (Network Name) - SSI for Germany (Project Name)
Test network started on Aug-21
Press release esatus as consortium member: https://www.pressebox.de/pressemitteilung/esatus-ag/SSI-for-Germany-Consortium-starts-decentralized-identity-network/boxid/1020932
Press release by Technical University Berlin: https://www.snet.tu-berlin.de/menue/news/2020/2020_08_28_ssi_for_germany_consortium_starts_decentralized_identity_network/#Identity
Video by Main incubator: 

Sovrin MainNet
KochiOrgBook - update from Vinod in APAC meeting
3 Members are working in project - Wipro, Kochi University (CUSAT), Kerala Blockchain Academy (KBA)
Wipro is identifying business use cases for Kochi university with KBA
Open Source Project ongoing
Session with local volunteers to introduce them to project
Full crowdsourcing approach based on volunteers
Local community meetup has started
Goal is to keep technology complexity to a minimum (reusing open source, shell scripting, etc.)
Everything is documented/managed via GitHub: https://github.com/hyperledgerkochi/KOBman
Local Hyperledger community established (Hyperledger Kochi)
KochiOrgBook to be covered in next Hyperledger meeting

UFWG APAC Interlock

Vinod suggests to move schedule of US/EU - APAC meetings to alternating weeks to allow more time for absorbing information
Agreed on holding a chair and vice chair sync meeting prior to day of call (e.g. at 8 am EST, 2 pm CET, 5:30 pm IST)
Update on KochiOrgBook provided by Vinod (see above)
Suggested session for KochiOrgBook presentation for everyone
Suggested session for SaturnV presentation for everyone
Update from Paul Knowles: Re-education meetings in MyData context
I am finalising putting together a 3-hour seminar for the benefit of the MyData Operators group at MyData Global to show them two core technologies in the Decentralised Identity community …
Core public utility technologies for a “Next Generation” Internet
Thursday, September 10th @ 9am US PT / 6pm CET
We’ll be presenting KERI (for verifiable data inputs) and OCA (for immutable semantics) during the seminar.

Decision Points

None 

Discussion Topics

Co-Chair / Vice-Chair participation requirements
What are the deliverables of the UFWG? 
Understanding TOIP Deliverables Version 5 (work-in-process)
What is our WG deliverables process? 
Who will volunteer to start a proposal (intro deck)?
Topics for draft considerations
Recap of our objectives - with specific focus on the assistance and guidance mode that the WG
How our GitHub repo will be used 
Utility Foundry decision tree
Workflow swim-lanes 
Who is the audience for each of our deliverables?
Utility Foundry Workflow Update
Do we have enough examples of sample projects use cases to get started with our Workflow Deep Dive?
We need to Swim-lane Deep Dives
Assign volunteers for each swim-lane

Action items

Education Meetings: @David Luchuk to work with Dan Gisolfi to ensure these sessions are recorded and made available.
@David Luchuk to provide HOST capabilities so that we can record the sessions
XXXX and XXXX to draft a proposal for UFWG deliverables
Call-for-Projects 
All Layer 1 Project Stories need to be documented in GitHub
Sovrin: 
IDunion: @Adrian Doerk
xxx
New Projects
Education Topics for Presentations to be Scheduled

KochiOrgBook (APAC meeting)
Set Agenda for next meeting

Open Items

Low priority items that failed gain volunteers to champion cause.

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