2020 05 22 DWG Agenda

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Agenda:

• Release status: Pam/Joe
  
  1. Dashboard: https://jira.hyperledger.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10104
  2. Fabric intends to release a v2.1.1 next week
• Contributors topic for new languages(standing topic)
  • New Brazilian Portuguese translation - Renato to join, hopefully
• (Joe) Using a CA to Register and Enroll identities. https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-ca/pull/145

Discussion

Eastern hemisphere call

1. Review of release status: https://jira.hyperledger.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10104
   1. Covered all major discussion points from last week's call
   2. LTS reminder: https://github.com/denyeart/fabric-rfcs/blob/a4fb4531bbad78c0d0b4180c324b8b1ff937f9e6/text/0000-lts-release-strategy.md
2. Aneena on ML progress
   1. ML repo now available in Hyperledger Labs: https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-docs-ml
   2. Local builds working
   3. Can use PO/POT and literal ML files
   4. Small issues with highlighting and untranslated strings
   5. New ML WDG: Malayalam Documentation Working Group
      1. Looking for volunteers, please add your name
   6. Looking at study group for ML documentation
   7. Next step to get public RTD site, built from https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-docs-ml
      1. using these instructions: https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-docs-ml/tree/master/docs#setting-up-your-own-staging-repo-and-publication-website
3. Short discussion on students using GitHub for career progression
   1. benefits of eminence, commit history etc for prospective employers
4. Recording uploaded.

Western hemisphere call

1. Release status
   
   1. 1.4.7 confirmed as just bug fixes
   2. BFT continuing, 2H 2020
   3. Channel API RFC approved, presentations on contributors calls, reducing neccesity of system channel
   4. Config Txn library - discussed at length reduce fabric tools for channel update procedures.
   5. Deployment guide merged, and CA deployment merged. User CA later, and follow-on topics for peer and ordering service.
   6. Snapshot and checkpoint continues. Advantages for restart scenarios
   7. Programming model GO SDK for 2.2
   8. BYFN all-replaced, Samples are now on test network.  Deprecated as topic, used test network instead.
   9. 2.1.1 Scheduled for next week
   10. Deeper discussion on strategic imperative of checkpoint/recovery
   11. Limited new functionality going into an LTS – this is a good thing. Quite unlike 1.4.x earlier releases
2. Language translations
   1. ML progress
   2. New request for Brazilian Portuguese translation (Renato)
      1. Will try to make progress this week
3. Registering and enrolling with CA
   1. Reviewed PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-ca/pull/145
   2. Use of organization CA
   3. Certificate "pathing", client and MSP perspective
   4. Significant discussion on these structures
   5. Organizations resources and their relationships
   6. Paths and URLs are very good discussion
   7. Jim on logical organizations joining without infrastrcuture
   8. gateways and identities are all that are needed to play
   9. Discussion on tiering and business network design
   10. Business network adoption discussion
   11.  Chris on trust anchor discussion. Trust anchor of data integrity as well as peers.
   12. Extensive discussion on DIDs
   13. c.f. Trust over IP framework: https://www.evernym.com/blog/trust-over-ip-foundation/
   14. How would this get integrated with OpenID connect and Trust over IP

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