1. Before we get sunk into projects, a quick survey of the ecosystem might be in order
    1. The foundational ideas that have to be tackled by any project (in any SIG) :
      1. functional: Identity, Smart Contracts, The concept of Tokens.
      2. Non-functional: Performance & Scale, Security, Interoperability
    2. We had hoped to address these in working groups, there was a white paper working group & a smart contract working group - Architecture, Performance, Identity working groups still exist, of this the architecture working group is the most generic to embody the cross silo approach. There was a Use case task force which had amassed a set of use cases. We have to revive that work and examine the Use Cases and their relevance today, it would be interesting to see how prescient or how off-base some of those use cases were. The requirements working group (now defunct) chaired by @Oleg Abrashitov was responsible. The original github has been removed by Ry Jones as part of a cleanup- references in 2016 05 19 TSC Minutes (interestingly welcoming Brian Behlendorf as ED)- Requirements G has been archived as Ry noted below- (https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/wiki-archive.hyperledger.org/tree/master/data/pages/requirements)- There are hundreds of use cases there...https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/wiki-archive.hyperledger.org/tree/master/data/pages/requirements/use-cases many of them are empty. Some of them are quite detailed. We need to separate the wheat from the chaff.
    3. The SIGs focused on business areas, of this Trade Finance, Supply Chain and Capital markets have special affinity as they are finance related. Climate Action and any other SIG interested in driving behavior or value through the markets (like the Media and Entertainment SIG) are also in this group.
    4. Some of the other foundational ideas that we have to address include provenance of which ESG and Climate Accounting are special cases as well as crypto-economic considerations (Climate Action, tokenization of NFTs and other related topics)- these also affect any attempts at remaking markets uniting digital assets and payment systems.


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