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Date
4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT
Welcome/Introductions
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Richard hosting biweekly meetings - looking for someone to step in 4 weeks from now. Ideally, someone outside of North America. European participation welcomed, ideal for someone from Europe to lead the meetings.
WG A:
Last meeting: Detailed work update.
Next meetings: Formal verification (April 8), IoT best practices (April 22)
Presentation on formal verification of protocols - particularly security protocols. The recording is available (Sven H.) DID Exchange Protocol in Aries and testing he's done in a formal verification tool. A necessary component to detect man in the middle situations with that protocol. If implementations not doing sufficient checking, they may not detect man in the middle. Using strong crypto; however, as we apply that crypto and connect - the opportunity for man in the middle. Slides/links in the morning A-call meeting minutes.
B-call - closed a couple of issues. Mediator cloud agent demo - showing and talking through concept and demonstration of cloud agent as a position end point for a mobile agent, a disconnecting agent. Second demo on tracing inside Aries protocol - with the capability turn on tracing to track performance, spit out performance messages. Or, just for specifically protocol issues, spin records, and present in a tool. Using Elastic Search and Kibana to show data and how to query + visual presentation. Specific agent or across agents. Second round on Credential Exchange 2.0 - making more agnostic versus Indy specific. Pretty good in version 1, version 2 finishes - specific to Indy + agnostic for other credentials.
Next WG A: Discussing Aries-Framework-Go. Notes and recordings
No call - will push predicates, never put into Indy and made available to Aries. Will add full set or more predicates than > = . Working on Aries wallet and using the Ursa capabilities for that.
Sovrin
Status of the network is good, even though the Sovrin Foundation is going through a transition.
First half of meeting update on Sovrin Foundation and reports from committees. Second half on the Covid Governance workstream committees.
Sovrin transition - Riley on the transition team - See Riley draft presentation slides below >>
DID Working Group Face-to-Face this week. Expect freeze to standard in May.
Other?
Not official Sovrin communication - not private; however, they are drafts, they are not final. Discussion of options - Please get involved
Six major workstreams for transition.
Ongoing servers with pipelines. People who help stewards run their nodes. Funding to continue those resources - cost base reduced dramatically. Previous $6-8k to functioning and no rent.
Continuous integration pipelines turn off. PR slowed from 5 to 10 hours.
Debt - employee travel
Looking for funding for 3 months. Then, the next 3 months. Six-month plan - fully transitioned foundation with a sustainable business model.
Focus on Sovrin 2.0. Future - over the immediate crisis.
Business/Economic Model and Governance - ongoing models - three proposals.
Framework in NoN model - 3-6 month timeline.
Lynn monitoring the network and ensuring stability. Lynn & Mike volunteer.
The governance framework needs to be developed under NoN.
Work that was done by paid staff will be picked up by the groups on the right.
ie Steward Qualification Committee will need to vett Steward Approvals
Linux Foundation role
Governance at every layer of the stack
Options - conversation and consideration. Not final
Networks can have different governance rules.
Different legal entities, etc.
Long term obligations - token (ie), going forward from an ecosystem perspective.
Debt with legal, etc.
Question - token, no token?
Use case for a token - value transfer in conjunction with information exchange. A lot of use cases need - a key component to the ecosystem as a whole. Need better business models to motivate to share data - hard to sustain users at the wallet level. With obligations (previous work) important to untangle liabilities while preserving the benefits of the use case. A major goal of the workstream is how to fulfill and meet legal and advisory work on value transfer without incurring additional liabilities. Details to work out, a lot of thinking going in this group. Darrell and Phil considering this and longterm funding plan. Want to open token - challenge is to do so without outside funding.
Work-in-Progress - Welcome all contributors, ideas, options.
Sovrin Steward Council? Probably on hold - charter created - the ideas was to ensure strong community interaction - independent of the current governance bodies.
Pushing forward launching the steward council would help tremendously with network/node monitoring, support and bug fixing. If the group can marshal the volunteers I don’t think there is any reason to wait, it just needs to be added as board resolutions to the trustee meeting agenda (they are meeting more often now — every other week — to help with the transition.)
Charter may be under evaluation - or coincide with general interruptions - may be on hold.