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Missions

For the period during which the scope and mission of this working group is formulated, the mission formulation will be discussed in the 'Scope' section below

The mission and goals of the Climate Action and Accounting SIG includes " to turn this network into action under a common open source project that defines shared protocols, standards, and platform tools for a globally integrated climate accounting system to be operationalized. "

This working group will focus particularly on "protocols and standards".  


  •  Note: provide a clear articulation of the difference between "protocols" and "standards".



TSC Working Group Updates

Scope clarification and disambiguation.

This section will eventually be much shorter.During the formation period, the text under this heading serves to guide the discussion on especially the mission, scope and deliverables. Once sufficient concensus has been reached, these discussions will be moved to an appropriate location and the concensus formulations kept here

What do we mean by 'standards'?

The term 'standard' is used in a variety of contexts. Even within the scope of the CA2SIG a variety of things are denoted with the term 'standard'. These include:

  • technical standards like those of the W3C 
  • accounting standards like that , including: or
    • voluntary standards like the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS
    , Gold Standard 
  • Environmental performance standards

What will the working group deliver and who will use it?

There are other bodies the create the types of standards mentioned above. This working group will be more concerned with how such standards themselves and compliance to these standards are encoded and captured in a distrubuted ledger an how such representations can be used. 

Use cases


What is standardised?

  • Entities

  • Activities and events

  • Agency

  • Counterfactuals


What is the relationship between standards, authority and freedom in the context of the work of the CA2SIG?


How will we translate standards into software?

Most generic articulation of what a standard is. 

Protobuf examples




How to Get Involved

  1. Please add your name to the active members list below. 
  2. Please comment on and expand the text - at the moment the essential task is the clarification of the scope. The headings under "Scope clarification and disambiguation." are deliberitely posed in the form of questions. Please venture an answer , elaborate or contradict the existing answer or pose a even more difficult question





Meetings

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Meeting Agendas

Meeting Notes

Communication Channels

These are the mechanisms that this working group uses to communicate.

Mailing List

Chat Channel

Links to Ongoing Work


Links to Completed Work

Links to External Resources

Active Members


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