2021-02-16 Meeting Page

2021-02-16 Meeting Page

16, February 2021  — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 CET

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RECORDING (North America / Europe)

Attendees

  • @Andre Kudra

  • @mathieu

  • @Claudia Grytz

  • @Cameron Boozarjomehri

  • @JessicaTownsend

  • @Lynn Gray Bendixsen

  • @Darrell O'Donnell

  • @Dave McKay

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) (2nd, Feb, 2021)

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

Resources
Sovrin Ledger Instrumentation and Monitoring Dashboard should be considered as a Best practice.
Indy DID Method Draft addresses new advancements in Key Mgmt and Ledger Discovery

Utility Projects

Bedrock

IDunion

Sovrin

Indicio

Canacred
Working on governance framework, looking to launch mid-March
Trying to get Test network up in Q2-Q3 2021

Task Force SOS (Scrum of Scrums)

TF Name

Mission

Members

Status

TF Name

Mission

Members

Status

Utility Project Implementation Guide Task Force

Create the getting started guide for prospective Utility Projects.

@Lynn Gray Bendixsen  (lead) 

@Dan Gisolfi

@Dave McKay

 

IG0029: Utility Project Guide

A new repo has been created and the TF has been issued its first objective.

TF is discussing outline and questions to be answered for prospective projects. 

Draft Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zysi79y5vxNBxhL7yI0M6FAViC_E2VUutUfT5Eac7CA/edit?usp=sharing

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

@Dave McKay

Drafting framework for evaluating public identity utilities (BP0014) (v2)
 Drafting v1 of three BP documents (based on feedback from interviews with decentralized PIU conveners/providers)*

BP0015 - Assessing Sustainability of a PIU (v1)
BP0016 - Determining Affordability of a PIU (v1)
BP0017 - Assessing Alignment to a PIU
Backlog
Dashboard Health / Network Monitoring (Example)

*At future point, consider consolidating all best practices into one comprehensive document

SUGGESTION: Interlocking with Saturn-V TF as a first user of these Best Practices.

Decentralization Task Force

Submit a BP deliverable and a design principle for what it means to be Decentralized.

Jessica Townsend  (lead) 

@Dan Gisolfi 

@mathieu

What are the key attributes of a Decentralized Utility?
Should we consider / review the W3C DID Decentralization Rubric
Consider their dimensions for evaluation
Spectrum of Decentralization

 

Glossary Task Force

Generate a UFWG Glossary in collaboration with the CTWG.

@RJ Reiser (lead) 

Still pending CTWG process.

Decision Points

We will use the next UFWG bi-weekly meeting as a show and tell by all task forces

Discussion Topics

Presenting in GSWG monthly meeting (Scott Perry's Slack note) → @mathieu will take "ambassador role" for GSWG

Action items

UFWG deliverables moved from task force to regular action item. Drafted presentation available here.
 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.

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