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.

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

F2F in Brooklyn & via WebEx

TSC Members

Name	Company	Status
Emmanuel Viale	Accenture	N/A
Stefan Teis	Deutsche Boerse Group	Present
Pardha Vishnumolakala	DTCC	N/A
Chris Ferris	IBM	Present
Mic Bowman	Intel	Present
Richard G. Brown	R3	N/A
Stan Liberman	CME Group	Present
Tamas Blummer	DAH	Present
David Voell	J.P. Morgan	Present
Hart Montgomery	Fujitsu	Present
Satoshi Oshima	Hitachi	N/A

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