2020-09-29 Meeting Page

2020-09-29 Meeting Page

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

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Recording (North America / Europe)

Recording (APAC)

Attendees

  • @Dan Gisolfi

  • @Andre Kudra

  • @Vinod Panicker

  • @mathieu

  • @sandeep krishnappa

  • @sankarshan

  • Sumod George

  • Eric Joy

  • @Claudia Grytz

  • @Drummond Reed

  • @Markus Sabadello

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

  • Arun Suresh

  • Eric

2 mins

Review / Approve minutes from last meeting (15-Sep-2020)

A. Kudra

  • Approved by Consensus

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

Education Sessions 
Planned: None
Available Recordings: See ToIP Education and Resources Wiki Page
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)

Sovrin MainNet
KochiOrgBook - Sumod from Vinod's team is working on story (according to template) [APAC meeting]

UFWG APAC Interlock

KochiOrgBook - Vinod's team is working on story (according to template)
@David Luchuk is scheduling a meeting to update the UFWG on activities in KochiOrgBook
@sandeep krishnappa Sand provides an update on the "Consent Project" / SSI activities with startups in Bangalore
@sandeep krishnappa will give detailed insights in one of the next meetings
An "India Stack" (not SSI but centralized, involves identity) is currently being developed by the Government of India which is monitored by @sandeep krishnappa and @Vinod Panicker
Relevance of SSI to "India Stack" is being verified
Break work down, it seems extensive for the active members of the UFWG
"Shorter reads" for interested parties might be more doable and helpful in a first run
Monthly meetings for APAC targeted - organize content which has maximum input and impact for attendees @David Luchuk to re-arrange schedule
Sub-groups will work on items and share their results in the monthly meeting

Decision Points

Establish sub-group to work on Utility Foundry Workflow
Lead: @mathieu
Members: Cameron B., @Claudia Grytz
Objectives
Draft a intro-deck (Google slides) to introduce our workflow.  Target Date:  dd-mmm-yyv
Draft implementation plan outline based on swim-lane experiences. Target Date:  dd-mmm-yy
Hold interviews to capture experience for each Swim-lane 
Sovrin Utility Governance Framework Task Force
Concern: Proposed chapter lacks clarity, affiliation with UFWG and should be removed. We welcome stakeholders to join UFWG.
 Action Options
Do Nothing
Request Removal of TF; Collapse members into UFWG
Suggest repositioning in alignment with GSWG

Discussion Topics

@mathieu  to PRESENT draft a proposal (results) from sub-group (Mathieu Glaude (lead), Dan Gisolfi, Andre Kudra) on UFWG deliverables
What are the deliverables of the UFWG? 
Who are the audience for each deliverable?
What is our deliverable process?

Volunteers via US/EU meeting: , +1 from esatus tbd, Lynn Bendixsen (review)

Action items

Andre Kudra will check with German UFWG community if they can entertain a German ToIP meeting
Call-for-Projects 
All Layer 1 Project Stories need to be documented in GitHub
Sovrin: Lynn Bendixsen, @Dan Gisolfi, @Andre Kudra(Document has been started and is awaiting feedback)
IDunion: Anna Pfeiffer from esatus will work with @Adrian Doerk
Indicio: Lynn Bendixsen
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.

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