2021-05-25 Meeting Page

Owned by Andre Kudra
Last updated: May 25, 2021
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25, May 2021  — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 18:00 UTC, 20:00 CET

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RECORDING HERE (North America / Europe)

Attendees

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

TimeItemWhoNotes
1 minWelcomeA. Kudra
2 mins

Antitrust Policy Notice

A. Kudra
5 minsAnnouncementsChairs
20 minsTask Force SOS (Scrum of Scrums)

Task Force Leads

Status update or preferably Show-and-tell from all task forces.
10 minsDecision PointsA. Kudra
10 minsDiscussion TopicsA. Kudra
10 mins

Q&A

A. Kudra

Announcements

  • Public Identity Utility Projects
    • Bedrock
      • -
    • IDunion
      • -
    • Sovrin
      • -
    • Indicio
      • -
    • Canacred
      • -
  • Call-for-Participation to all of ToIP to aid Jessica Townsendin the development of the Decentralization by Design on April 5th.
  • EFWG maintain list of ecosystems.

Task Force SOS (Scrum of Scrums)

TF NameMissionMembersStatus

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 issued its first objective. Lynn seeks assistance on repo publishing with Mac.

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 ForceAnalyze 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


Glossary Task ForceGenerate a UFWG Glossary in collaboration with the CTWG.RJ Reiser (lead) Still pending CTWG process. Submissions under review.


Decision Points

  • Collate all produced UFWG content into one "UFWG Guidance 1.0" repository.
    • Clarify formal procedure how this can be achieved.
  • Structure / build ToC. Ideas:
    • Utility generic lifecycle
    • Utility 101
    • Utility examples
      • Indicio
      • Sovrin
      • IDunion
      • Bedrock
      • Canacred
    • Utility project guide
    • Decentralization by Design
    • Framework for evaluating utilities
  • Provide this as update to the ToIP All Member Meeting.
  • Ask for support in managing this through the github publication process.

Discussion Items

  • -

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