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- Vipin Bharathan, DLT.NYC- www.dlt.nyc
- Nathan George, Sovrin
- Matt Raffel
- Sam Curren
- Stan Liberman
Agenda: 2019-02-06
Notes:
. Nathan presented a new project proposal (we have found a name: Envoy)- see diagram below
Nathan laid out the rationale for the new project.
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Stan asked a provocative question whether this will cause Indy to disappear. Nathan says that since Indy has a good resolver interface to manage verifiable registry, Indy will survive and demonstrate that it has value.
Sam Curren talked about the Sovrin Connectathon which is to demonstrate and thrash out technical details of a proto-Envoy; one that supports a very limited set of The Agenty side of Envoy, albeit in a very simple form. Detailed Agenda is here. It is coming up soon, so if you want to participate, please sign up. there may be a limited remote reachability (in the form of videos/slides for just the presentations)
Vipin talked about technical and social evangelism. There is a lot of talk about the overreach of technical giants who have created enormous privacy challenges through what is called "surveillance capitalism" (see the book by Shoshanah Zuboff); technological solutions are being viewed with suspicion. It is not by dismissing these concerns with a handwave or disdain that we will change perceptions. It is important to inject the notions of privacy by design and other techniques into the debate in a manner understandable by the layperson and demonstrating a different future is possible. Sam Curren responded that he would participate through demonstrating technical solutions that preserved privacy.
We spoke about the timeline for Envoy. It will be suggested after Ursa becomes stable; at this point it will be sometime after the Hong Kong event in March.
We also spoke about the future technical underpinnings of Envoy, Message Layer Security standards, Noise Protocol generators, ZKProof developments, formal verification. Nathan mentioned that Rust is being used extensively in Indy and Ursa due to some of properties of memory protection and other features that make it difficult to make egregious mistakes in coding and that aids Formal verification. Further details in the audio call recording.