12 pm EDT attendees
@Drummond Reed
@Steve Magennis
@James Waugh
@Karan Varma
@Stephen Graves
@Leonard Edwin
-Drummond filled us in on the standardization landscape and the work on the extensive Sovrin glossary with appendices. The Glossary has 37 pages of definitions, even though some of them are Sovrin specific, most of the entries are commonly developed and used in the Self Sovereign Identity landscape. This is a very exhaustive and extensive list which can be quite daunting for anyone who does not dwell in the SSI DiD world. Our aim will be to help you navigate this world with backgrounders and sketches in the Identity WG paper.
The following are the salient links for those who want to explore this further
In particular he cited the Appendix D of the Sovrin Glossary for a layered approach. we were struck by the similarity to The Self-Sovereign Identity Stack by Oliver Terbu and to the OSI Stack that everyone is familiar with in Networking.
We asked a series of questions:
After Drummond left we introduced the rest of the participants
8 pm EDT attendees
@Jim Wowchuk - InBlox finance, principal consultant for health professionals. Part of Blockchain Advisory for Australian govt saw a huge number of people in Adelaide BC Conference State Govt in Adelaide (South Australia) is supportive of BC, maybe not so much in New South Wales.
@Greg Tucker Formerly IT Service Management space, now payments + Identity space in Telecom services organization in Tokyo
@Todd Gehrke From Luxoft Seattle
@Randy Zhang from Dallas CISCO who have created their own blockchain. Identity ties into all other things
@Drummond Reed
Drummond went through a stack that he had specially prepared for explaining SSI from the Sovrin perspective but was broad enough for the space. Looking at the video uploaded from the meeting will give you a good idea about the talk.
Some highlights: