2020-09-15 Meeting Page

15, September 2020  — 8AM PT, 11AM ET, 16:00 UK, 17:00 CET

Send an email to utility-foundry-wg@lists.trustoverip.org to request a calendar invite (you can subscribe to the mailing list at lists.trustoverip.org).

Recording (North America / Europe)

Recording (APAC)

Attendees

• Dan Gisolfi

• Andre Kudra (both slots)

• Drummond Reed
• Chris B
• Eric Vinton
• Jessica Townsend
• Claudi Grytz
• Lynn Bendixsen
• Matthiew Glaude
• Richard Esplin
• Steven Milstein
• Dave Luchuk (ToIP Program Manager)
• Kevin Griffin

Goals

• Assign action items for next meeting
• Establish work plan for WG deliverables and workflow guidance
• Gather agenda suggestions for next meeting

Agenda Items

Announcement Details

• Education Meetings
  • Recordings Available 
    • Blockchain Automation Framework: <LINK> David Luchuk
    • Aries DID Ledger Architecture:
      • Video - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vl2cVmuc0B-TtM_lAdeIrOV9J8PJbLh4/view?usp=drivesdk  
      • Slides - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MKC8J9nezO4hBDWREpwtcWLuaIfIBlM-BC1vt7W4tes/edit David Luchuk
  • Decentralized DID Namespace Registry (DDNR): Scheduled for 23 September 2020. See Slack Channel and Mailing List for details.
• 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. 
    • Moral Contract for Contributors 

Utility Projects

• Bedrock
  1. Call for interested companies that may be interested in joining. Send email request to Dan Gisolfi stating company name and contact email address.
  2. Pre-Launch activities progressing with target formation of LF Utility project set for Oct 2020.
• IDunion (Network Name) - SSI for Germany (Project Name)
  1. Anna Pfeiffer from esatus has been assigned to issue a PR for the IDunion story, she will reconcile with Adrian Doerk from Main Incubator
     

• Sovrin MainNet

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

UFWG APAC Interlock

• KochiOrgBook - Sumod from Vinod's team is working on story (according to template)
• Engage smaller working groups aligend with regions (e.g. India centric working group) - volunteers wanted!
• Other regions should consider localized working groups as well
• Paul Knowles Seminar update from September 10th, 2020: "Core public utility technologies for a Next Generation Internet"
  

• Event link: https://humancolossus.foundation/blog/invitation-core-public-utility-technologies-for-a-next-generation-internet
• 3-part seminar: Network models, Inputs domain, Semantic domain
• Approx. 35 people attended the seminar which was primarily targeted at the MyData Operators group
• Relevant to the UFWG, "Part 1: Inputs domain" was covered by Sam Smith who presented KERI (Key Event Receipt Infrastructure)

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Decision Points

• A Bi-Monthly Leadership call for the Co-Chair / Vice-Chair participates is now scheduled to coordinate on agenda and WG activity.
• Due to lack of consistent participation, we MUST assign to David Luchukthe task to confirm Co-Chair / Vice-Chair list by next meeting 

  • Co-Chair: Dan Gisolfi (IBM)

  • Co-Chair: André Kudra (esatus)

  • Co-Chair: Vinod Panicker (Wipro)

  • Vice-Chair: Cameron Boozarjomehri (MITRE)
    Chris B from MITRE will confirm with Cameron B.

  • Vice-Chair: Mathieu Glaude (Northern Block)

  • Vice-Chair: Sandeep Krishnappa (Infoeaze Digital Services)

Discussion Topics

• What are the deliverables of the UFWG? 
  • ASSIGN sub-group with drafting our WG deliverables process for next week.
    •  Understanding TOIP Deliverables Version 5 (work-in-process)
      
      • Topics for draft considerations
        • Recap of our objectives - with specific focus on the assistance and guidance mode that the WG
        • How our GitHub repo will be used 
        • Utility Foundry decision tree
        • Workflow swim-lanes 
      • Who is the audience for each of our deliverables?
    • Volunteers via APAC meeting: Vinod Panicker
      
    • Volunteers via US/EU meeting: Mathieu Glaude (lead), Dan Gisolfi, Andre Kudra, +1 from esatus tbd, Lynn Bendixsen (review)
• ASSIGN  sub-group to work on Utility Foundry Workflow
  • Draft a intro-deck (Google slides) to introduce our workflow
  • Do we have enough examples of sample projects use cases to get started with our Workflow Deep Dive?
  • We need to Swim-lane Deep Dives
    • Assign volunteers for each swim-lane
  • Volunteers via APAC meeting: x
  • Volunteers via US/EU meeting: x
• Andre Kudra will check with German UFWG community if they can entertain a German ToIP meeting
• Triage GitHub Issues

Action items

• Mathieu Glaude to PRESENT draft a proposal for UFWG deliverables at next mtg.
• Call-for-Projects 
  • All Layer 1 Project Stories need to be documented in GitHub
    • Bedrock Business Utility: Dan Gisolfi
    • Sovrin: Lynn Bendixsen, Dan Gisolfi, Andre Kudra
    • IDunion: Anna Pfeiffer from esatus will work with Adrian Doerk
    • Indicio: Lynn Bendixsen
  • New Projects
• Education Topics for Presentations to be Scheduled
  
  • KochiOrgBook (For All) David Luchuk
  • Connect with Vinod Panicker to arrange meeting
• 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
  •