This page has agendas, notes, and action items from each meeting of the UFWG in reverse chronological order.
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Tuesday, June 23 — 11:00-12:00 PT / 18:00-19:00 UTC
Agenda and Notes
- Welcome and Introductions (André)
- TODO
Tuesday, June 09 — 11:00-12:00 PT / 18:00-19:00 UTC
Agenda and Notes
- Welcome and Introductions (André)
- André Kudra, esatus, Germany
- Dan Gisolfi, IBM, New York, USA
- Convener of the Bedrock Business Utility
- This is the WG that will enable interop between ToIP Layer One utilities
- We will "prime the pump" for other utilities
- Suggest we start off with a high-level workflow
- Drummond Reed, Evernym, Seattle, USA
- Chief Trust Officer at Evernym
- Darrell O'Donnell, CEO, Continuum Loop, Ottawa, Canada
- Want to see us build a very boring utility layer
- Matt Davies, CTO, Finicity, Utah
- Want to ensure a strong foundation for financial apps higher in the stack
- Wenjiing Chu, Futurewei, Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Wants to understand the structure and dimension of Layer One
- Goal is to build a stronger and more lasting foundation
- Mark Scott, San DIego, CA, USA
- Exploring all four of the initial WGs
- Generally more interested in the technical stack
- Steven Milstein, Ottawa, Canada
- Consultant, follower of SSI
- Interested in getting more deeply involved
- Arjun Govind, R3, typically in Philadelphia, currently in Bangalore
- Very interested in participating
- Sebastien Weidenbach, esatus AG, Technical Architect
- Markus Sabadello, co-founder, DanubeTech
- SSI architect
- Involved in the DHS Silicon Valley Innovation Program
- Sovrin Founding Steward
- Also operator of a Sovrin BuilderNet node
- Co-Chair of the Decentralized Identity Foundation Identifiers & Discovery (ID) Working Group
- Co-Editor, W3C Decentralized Identifier (DID) Specification
- Review of mission and scope
- André: we help as a community of practice for ToIP Layer One utility networks
- Drummond noted the ToIP Layer One utilities that are either existing or planned that may align with this mission
- Sovrin Network
- Bedrock Business Utility
- Findy (in Finland)
- Three forming in Germany—all are well aware of ToIP and aligned with interoperability with it—they are all interested in joining
- LISSI (Let's Initiate SSI), formally called SSI4DE (SSI for Deuscheland)
- govdigital—consortia of public data center providers in Germany that are planning a utility
- ECO Association of Internet companies in Germany
- Potential utility in Canada, possibly being incubated by the BC Gov Digital Trust Services team
- Austrian consortia that may be interested
- Banks, telcos, startups (DanubeTech has been an early participant)
- We broadly agreed that ToIP Layer One utilities are the foundational layer for decentralized PKI (DPKI)
- Proposed deliverables
- ToIP Utility RFP templates
- ToIP Utilitie Best Practices documents
- White papers
- ToIP Utility website including a directory of ToIP-compatible Utilities and Foundry Service Provider
- Workflow decision tree guidance <== proposed by DanG
- Potential Initial Work Items
- Develop ToIP Utility website and directory of ToIP-compatible Utilities
- Develop RFP templates and guides
- Develop ToIP Utility Best Practices documents and publishing process
- Initiate and maintain repository of relevant white papers and identify ToIP thought leadership white paper opportunities
- Build ToIP liaison with Utility projects and provide guidance
- eco German Association of the Internet Industry (in planning)
- Interop endeavors of govdigital and Findy
- Dan raised the liaison between a particular utility and a particular TIP (ToIP Interoperability Profile)
- Dan is interested in using this information to gauge market interest in particular Layer One technologies
- LF collaboration tools
- Github
- Github is our primary content repository
- https://github.com/trustoverip
- All deliverables (Markdown documents, other doc formats)
- Best practices content
- Research documents
- Overall github repo organizational proposal from Dan Gisolfi
- Should we convene a Task Force to design our particular branch(es)?
- Structure
- Github training sessions/tools
- WG Chairs
- Dan Gisolfi is willing to volunteer (seconded by Drummond due to Dan's leadership in convening the Bedrock consortia)
- André Kudra was nominated by Darrell and seconded by Drummond
- We agreed to open nominations to the mailing list and formally agree on chairs in the next meeting
- Meeting time and cadence
- We agreed to stick with this meeting time slot once every two weeks