2016 03 25 TSC Minutes

Hyperledger Project

Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting

A recording of this meeting exists but the file has been moved and cannot be located by Cisco Webex. 

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March 25, 2016 (8:00am - 9:00am PT)

F2F in Brooklyn & via WebEx

TSC Members

Resources:

• Github:  www.github.com/hyperledger
• Wiki:  https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger/wiki
• IRC:  #hyperledger on freenode.net (has Meetbot)
• Public lists:  lists.hyperledger.org
• Slack:  hyperledgerproject.slack.com/signup (email tbenzies@linuxfoundation.org for access)
• Information on the TSC Members can be found at https://www.hyperledger.org/about/tsc

Readouts from Technical F2F

• Recording available of readouts from Technical F2F, which took place prior to TSC Meeting

Getting to a Code Base

• A team at the hackathon developed a PoC for a merged code base 
• This team demonstrated their PoC work
• The team noted that they pivoted slightly from the original plans once the pulled code together and merged 
• The net result is that they found a more elegant solution in the process

Open Discussion

• Comment about identity issues.  Talking about federation and very different requirements... are we supporting multi-sig, what are wallet requirements, regulatory issues (hardware, tokens, etc.), privacy issues (i.e. Europe vs. US),  This will affect all of our Federations. If we create a lot of different chaincodes with authority being granted by those chaincodes, how does that work? Suggested to TSC to determine where identity fits into the project.
• The TSC discussed general topics of the relationship of HLP protocols, code and architecture. There was interest in eventually creating a way to pass cryptographic proofs with a protocol for exchanging.

Next Steps

• Chris Ferris:  recommend to merge the codebases to then start building and testing
  • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/185C9JUICwJQFnf6vH2nOEBNATAVG1XBVY-e-EV6oRSQ/edit
• Most TSC members favored moving forward with this proposal
• A request was made to see the proposal documented with a few more specifics before casting a formal vote
• ACTION:  Chris Ferris will formalize proposal and send out for review prior to a vote

Future F2F

• Plan to have another F2F in roughly 1 month's time.
• Preference for east coast -- though may want to move GEO around