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The scope for the Fabric interoperability group is initially limited to a defined scenario.
In this scenario we have to distinguish between the working group defines the technical interoperability (“joining a Fabric peer node to an existing Fabric channel”) and the business interoperability (“business network”). The interoperability workgroup will focus only on the technical interoperabilityaspect of the interoperability, in another word, it is the process from programming aspect what actions organizations should take to add an organization into an existing fabric network channel. During the process, an organization already in the network may decide to approve or disprove the new organization's request, the decision is solely up to the representative of that organization based on their business considerations. The process this working group defines does not in any way determines that decision.
We assume that there already exists a Fabric channel relative to an ordering service. Attached to this channel can be any number of Fabric peer nodes. It is assumed for the discussion that each Fabric peer node has been provisioned by a (cloud) vendor in the name of the customer/organization. In a simpler variation, any organization can also be their own “vendor”.
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