2020-07-07 Meeting

07, July 2020 — 09:00-10:00 PT / 16:00-17:00 UTC

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Agenda

Guiding Goal: Organize the working group.

Welcome from the conveners (Paul, Robert—5 mins)
- What is Decentralized Semantics?
  - A representation of “data semantics” within an age of distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions which continue to mould the current decentralization movement.
    - Ref.: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/be83/0ed8ce28b68d7b99a5be7dc61c35ed4089c4.pdf
- Characteristics of a decentralized network
  - Ref.: https://humancolossus.foundation/blog/active-and-passive-identifiers
Introductions (WG, 15 mins)
Mission and scope of this WG (Paul—10 mins)
- Mission: To define a data capture architecture consisting of immutable schema bases and interoperable overlays for Internet-scale deployment.
  - Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA)
    - Ref.: https://oca.colossi.network
Potential initial work items (Paul—15 mins)
- Suggested initial work items
  - Functionality requirements of a data capture architecture
    - Ref.: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XTf1A4JTbuNntMflQA-eakX-ClkqtY-N/edit
  - Task Force alignment with WG
Logistics (Paul—10 mins)
1. Mailing list
2. Wiki
3. Github repo structure (repository of best practices)
4. Task Forces
5. Chairs
6. Meeting schedul

Meeting Notes

Recording

Participants (Name / Location / Time zone / Affiliation / One-sentence summary of interest):

@Paul Knowles / Basel, Switzerland / CET / Human Colossus Foundation / Developing OCA into a standardized global solution for data capture.
@Robert Mitwicki / Graz, Austria / CET / Human Colossus Foundation / Developing OCA into a standardized global solution for data capture.
@Vipin Bharathan / New York City, NY, USA / EDT / dlt.nyc / How do we interoperate? Data Semantics will help.
@Philippe Page / Geneva, Switzerland / CET / Human Colossus Foundation / Decentralized Semantic and Consent management.
@John Wunderlich / Toronto, Canada / EDT / JLINC Labs, IEEE Standards, Kantara Initiative, MyData Global / Information Sharing.
@John Walker / Bay Area, USA / PDT / SemanticClarity, CCI / OCA development and semantic interoperability.
@Davide / London, UK / GMT / MyData Global / Developing End2End solution architecture based on Data Commons and MyData Operator principles.
@Lal Chandran / Stockholm, Sweden / CET / iGrant.io, MyData Operator, Data4Life Initiative for decentralised health data / Develop standards towards Open APIs for consented data exchange.
@Scott Whitmire / Scottsdale, AZ, USA / MST / Mayo Clinic / Making use of OCA to create IEEE standard and ToIP ecosystem for medical information (data and imaging).
Michael Corning / Sisters, OR, USA / PDT / Secours.io
@Alan Davies / Newbury Park, CA, USA / PDT / Credential Master
Victoria Lemieux / Vancouver, Canada / PDT / Blockchain@UBC
@Anadi Pandharkar / Vancouver, Canada / PDT / Blockchain@UBC
@Burak Serdar / Denver, CO, USA / MST / Cloud Privacy Labs
Marty Hummel / Cheshire, CT, USA / EDT / Optum
Najah Naffah / Paris, France / CET / Blockchain Secure
@Former user (Deleted) / Dorset, UK / GMT / Kantara Initiative
@Drummond Reed / Seattle, WA, USA / PDT / Evernym
@吉村和人 / Tokyo, Japan / JST / BTC Corporation
@Marie Wallace / Dublin, Ireland / GMT / IBM Watson Health
@Mark Lizar / Toronto, Canada / EDT / Open Consent Group
@Mike Bennett (Deactivated) / Wales, UK / GMT / Freelance Ontologist
@Mukund Parthasarathy / Bay Area, USA / PDT / SemanticClarity
Nick Nayfack / San Francisco, CA, USA / PDT / Team Ikigai
@Salvatore D'Agostino / Boston, MA, USA / EDT / Open Consent Group
@sankarshan / Bengaluru, India / IST / Dhiway
Subra Subramaniam / Bay Area, USA / PDT / CyberKnowledge
@Steven Milstein / Montreal, Canada / EDT / Colab Ventures
@Wenjing Chu / Bay Area, USA / PDT / Futurewei Technologies
@Zeljko Milinovic / Graz, Austria / CET / KNAPP
@Former user (Deleted) / Stockholm, Sweden / CET / Redfield

Additional Desired Outcomes:

@Robert Mitwicki to build a generic template for prospective use cases to add to the DSWG wiki page.

Leadership positions:

(Note: We plan to instigate an official submissions, nominations and voting process. In the meantime, please put your name down if you are interested in volunteering for either a Chair or Vice-chair position.)

Chair volunteers
- Paul Knowles (Human Colossus Foundation)
Vice-chair volunteers
- John Wunderlich (JLINC)
- Nick Nayfack (Team Ikigai)