2022-09-08 GSWG Meeting Notes

Owned by Scott Perry
Last updated: Sept 08, 2022 by Drummond Reed
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Meeting Date

The GSWG meets bi-weekly on Thursdays at 11:00-12:00 PT / 18:00-19:00 UTC. Check the ToIP Calendar for meeting dates.

Zoom Meeting Recording

https://zoom.us/rec/share/vZDbR4DWvK-Uu-Ix12SL3bZTIMKtdcfP-RHVYA3pMW5w3T6UI_YEu2Er8wDh96oE.xTvtxdsxEidfQ5uC 

Attendees

Main Goal of this Meeting

1) Share status updates on GSWG related activities and work items.

Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)

TimeAgenda ItemLeadNotes
5 min
  • Start recording
  • Welcome & antitrust notice
  • Introduction of new members
  • Agenda review
Chairs
  • Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.
  • New Members: none

Review of action items from previous meetingChairsNone
10 minsAnnouncementsAll

News or events of interest to Governance Stack WG members:

  • Next week is the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, Hyperledger Global Forum, and ToIP Summit in Dublin.
    • Kyle Robinson is speaking on a panel about the BC Gov Mines Digital Trust program.
    • Scott Perry is speaking on Governance and Audit of Blockchain Networks.
    • Drummond Reed is speaking at the ToIP Summit on the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification and the Steering Committee panel.

Mary Lacity announced that she and her co-author have just published a new book: Blockchain Fundamentals for Web 3.0.

Mary mentioned another recently published book: Blockchains and the Token Economy.

Savita Farooqui announced that the IEEE Blockchain Governance WG has made considerable progress and she and her co-chair would like to schedule another session to share that progress with the GSWG members. (See the action item at the end.)

  • 10 minutes
Technology Architecture Task Force (TATF)

Drummond Reed

Drummond explained how the progress of the TATF on the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification (TAS) V1 is likely to affect the GSWG. This link is to the Google doc version of Working Draft 03 — it is being superseded by the GitHub version.

  • First, he pointed out that it brought clarity to the progression of four workstreams that will eventually produce the full ToIP stack. See screenshot #1 below, which appears in section 4 of the TAS.
  • He explained the structure of the TAS and how all normative requirements were consolidated in Appendix A.
  • He agreed with Scott that a GSWG review of these requirements would be a logical next step in two directions:
    1. To review what changes may be necessary to our Governance Architecture specifications.
    2. To suggest the set of components to be the focus of the Governance Architecture TF work.
10 minsGovernance Architecture Task Force

Carly

Carly reported on the progress of the resurrected Governance Architecture Task Force.

  • The first meetings (NA/EU and APAC) were held yesterday.
  • They covered the basic approach that the leads of the GATF have laid out.
  • The next step will be to explore ToIP governance methodology in the context of the Museum Pass set of use cases.

Scott brought up that a key aspect of the new GATF is a focus on governing components vs. governing layers.

  • Carly explained that a ToIP component is an element of ToIP technology that needs governance.
  • The different components will be emerging from the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification. A good example is a trust registry.
10 minsReorg of the Inputs and Semantics Working Group

Steven Milstein 

Steven explained the reorganization of the Inputs and Semantics WG into the Data Modeling and Representation WG.

Scott explained that he invited the leads of the two ISWG task forces to present at this meeting but they did not have enough notice to be able to attend today. They included:

5 mins
  • Review decisions/action items
  • Planning for next meeting 
Chairs

DECISION: We agreed to continue to switch off in our bi-weekly GSWG meetings between plenary meetings and special topic meetings.

We agreed to have Savita Farooqui and her IEEE Blockchain Governance WG co-chair present at our next GSWG special topic meeting in two weeks (Sept 22) if that time will work for them. 

ACTION: Savita Farooqui to confirm with Scott Perry if she and her IEEE Blockchain Governance WG co-chair will be able to present at our next GSWG special topic meeting on Sept 22.

ACTION: Drummond Reed to line up Technology Architecture Task Force members to attend the following GSWG special topic meeting on Oct 20th for a discussion of: a) how the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification requirements affect the GSWG and our Governance Architecture specs, and b) what architectural components would be a good fit for the initial focus of our Governance Architecture Task Force.

Screenshots

#1

Decisions

  • DECISION: We agreed to continue to switch off in our bi-weekly GSWG meetings between plenary meetings and special topic meetings.

Action Items

  • ACTION: Savita Farooqui to confirm with Scott Perry if she and her IEEE Blockchain Governance WG co-chair will be able to present at our next GSWG special topic meeting on Sept 22.

  • ACTION: Drummond Reed to line up Technology Architecture Task Force members to attend the following GSWG special topic meeting on Oct 20th for a discussion of: a) how the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification requirements affect the GSWG and our Governance Architecture specs, and b) what architectural components would be a good fit for the initial focus of our Governance Architecture Task Force.