2021-01-19 Meeting Page

19, January 2021 — 11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 19:00 UTC, 20:00 CET

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Time	Item	Who	Notes
1 min	Welcome	A. Kudra
2 mins	Antitrust Policy Notice	A. Kudra
5 mins	New Introductions	A. Kudra	None
2 mins	Review / Approve minutes from last meeting(s) (05-Jan-2021)	A. Kudra	Approved via consensus
10 mins	Announcements	A. Kudra
20 mins	Utility Project Status Updates	Utility Representatives
5 mins	Task Force SOS	M. Glaude
10 mins	Decision Points	A. Kudra
10 mins	Discussion Topics	A. Kudra
10 mins	Review Action and Open Items	A. Kudra
10 mins	Q&A	A. Kudra

Bedrock
- Officially launched LF project focused on membership onboarding campaign to get to 40 members.
IDunion
- Work is in progress under SSI for Germany (SSI4DE) project, presumably funding of German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs for SSI4DE will continue in 2021 and beyond.
- Plans underway to create the legal entity via a EU cooperative model, also independently from SSI4DE if needed.
Sovrin
- Network and Foundation stability now exists for 2021.
Indicio
- Indicio TestNet has been expanded to 7 nodes based on user feedback. MainNet is at 6 Nodes and when the 7th is added they will make a formal announcement.
- Indicio is now a public benefits corporation from a legal entity perspective.
- Contributing nodes will be updated in the associated story once formal announcement is made.

Meeting of APAC group is on Thursday, Jan-7 2021, 8 am CET
Vinod Panicker confirmed in prep meeting that KOB is planning a Utility, KOB seeking ways to govern Utility without legal entity

TF Name	Mission	Members	Status
UFWG deliverables	Define and communicate to our UFWG deliverables and process.	Mathieu Glaude (lead) Dan Gisolfi Andre Kudra	Drafted presentation available here What are the deliverables of the UFWG? Who are the audience for each deliverable? What is our deliverable process?
Best Practices Task Force	Analyze Project Interviews, establish list of Best Practices and submit each BP using ToIP Deliverables Process.	Mathieu Glaude (lead) Dan Gisolfi Claudia Grytz Lynn Bendixsen @Sarah Olfert	(In progress) Drafting framework for evaluating public identity utilities (In progress) Drafting v1 of three BP documents (based on feedback from interviews with decentralized PIU conveners/providers) BP0011 - Assessing Sustainability of a PIU BP0012 - Determining Affordability of a PIU BP0013 - Assessing Alignment to a PIU At future point, consider consolidating all best practices into one comprehensive document
Decentralization Task Force	Submit a BP deliverable and a design principle for what it means to be Decentralized.	Jessica Townsend (lead)	What are the key attributes of a Decentralized Utility? Should we consider / review the W3C DID Decentralization Rubric Consider their dimensions for evaluation Lead decided in Oct-27 meeting, added in Nov-10 meeting
Glossary Task Force	Generate a UFWG Glossary in collaboration with the CTWG.	RJ Reiser (lead)	Lead added in Oct-27 meeting

Utility Project List
- Pull Request #24
  - Decision: Merge rejected; Pending updates.

Call-for-Projects
- All Layer 1 Project Stories need to be documented in GitHub
- Any new projects? → See Discussion Topics
Education Topics for Presentations to be Scheduled
- None
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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