2020-10-13 Meeting Page

13, October 2020  — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 18:00 UTC, 20:00 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)

Attendees

• Dan Gisolfi
• Andre Kudra
• Mathieu Glaude
• RJ Reiser
• Drummond Reed
• Lynn Bendixsen
• Paul Knowles
• Claudia Grytz

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

• New APAC Schedule re-arranged
• Education Sessions 
  • Planned: None
  • Available Recordings: See ToIP Education and Resources Wiki Page
• Reminders
  • Terminology: All terminology suggestions should be submitted as Issues to the Concepts and Terminology WG Repo

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. All Legal Instruments FINAL and companies are able to now register as a member. Soft-Launch will be triggered by 36 signup and a LF press release.
• 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 @ Stephen Curran

  • Network is stable
  • Financial situation has also stabilized
• Indicio Lynn Bendixsen
  • TestNet is stable
  • Working of tools for managing 
  • 5 current stewards with more coming

UFWG APAC Interlock

• None

Decision Points

• None

Discussion Topics

• Mathieu Glaude  to PRESENT draft a proposal (results) from sub-group (Mathieu Glaude (lead), Dan Gisolfi, Andre Kudra) on UFWG deliverables
  • What are the deliverables of the UFWG? 
  • Who are the audience for each deliverable?
  • What is our deliverable process?
    
    • Volunteers via US/EU meeting: , +1 from esatus tbd, Lynn Bendixsen (review)
• Triage GitHub Issues

Action items

• Create TF for a Recommendation (Best Practice) on "Decentralization"
  • What are the key attributes of a Decentralized Utility?
  • Should we consider / review the W3C DID spec rubic
• Andre Kudra will check with German UFWG community if they can entertain a German ToIP meeting
• 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(Document has been started and is awaiting feedback)
    • IDunion: Anna Pfeiffer from esatus will work with Adrian Doerk
    • Indicio: Lynn Bendixsen
  • New Projects
• 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.

• 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
  • KochiOrgBook 
    • David LuchukConnect with Vinod Panicker to arrange meeting