Hyperledger Project
Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting
February 11, 2016 (7:00am - 8:30am PT)
via GoToMeeting
TSC Members
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Emmanuel Viale
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Accenture
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Present
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Kireeti Reddy
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CME Group
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N/A
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Shaul Kfir
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DAH
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N/A
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Stefan Teis
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Deutsche Boerse
Group
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Present
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Pardha
Vishnumolakala
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DTCC
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N/A
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Kei Taniuchi
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Fujitsu
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N/A
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TBD
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Hitachi
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N/A
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Chris Ferris
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IBM
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Present
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Mic Bowman
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Intel
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Present
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David Voell
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J.P. Morgan
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Present
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Richard G. Brown
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R3
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Present
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More information on the TSC Members can be
found at https://www.hyperledger.org/about/tsc
TSC Chair Elections
·
Note:
if you are a Premier member and have not yet notified tbenzies@...
of your TSC representative, please do so ASAP.
·
Process
for electing a TSC Chair (from the 11 TSC members)
o Begin nomination
period:
Today, Feb 11th, nominations includes a short bio/pitch less than 1 page
o End nomination period: 9pm Pacific Time on
Wednesday, Feb 17th
o Send slate of
respective nominees to TSC Members: Thursday, Feb 18th
o Send TSC members the
ballot link to electronic voting: Thursday, Feb 18th using Condorcet voting
(http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/)
o Voting period ends: Tuesday, Feb 23rd at
9pm Pacific Time
o Election winners
announced:
Wednesday, Feb 24th
·
The
TSC operates in the open (open calls, public list)
· Startup
Period: During the first six (6) months after project launch, the TSC voting
members shall consist of one (1) appointed representative from each Premier
Member and each Top Level Project Maintainer, provided that no company
(including related companies or affiliates under common control) shall have
more than three (3) votes on the TSC.
· Steady
State: After the Startup Period, there shall be a nomination and election
period for electing Contributors or Maintainers to the TSC. The TSC voting
members shall consist of eleven (11) elected Contributors or Maintainers chosen
by the Active Contributors. An Active Contributor is defined as any Contributor
who has had a contribution accepted into the codebase during the prior twelve
(12) months. The TSC shall approve the process and timing for nominations and
elections held on an annual basis.
Tools/Services
· IRC:
#hyperledger on freenode.net
(has Meetbot)
·
Public
lists: lists.hyperledger.org
·
Slack:
hyperledgerproject.slack.com
(it was noted that it is possible to bridge IRC w/ Slack)
· Wiki
would be useful -- Linux Foundation to set up
Meeting Cadence
·
Consensus:
[weekly] Thursdays, 7:00am - 8:30am PT
o Evaluate after 1 month
if any changes to cadence or timing are necessary
Code
·
Discussion
on where and how to land code -- getting proposed code into public review.
·
Should
code under review remain on www.github.com/staging-blockchain or be moved to the formal
org www.github.com/hyperledger?
o Consensus: use www.github.com/hyperledger,
companies with proposed code can point to their repos from the readme, and note
whether those linked repos are either “snapshot” or “ongoing development”
Template for Proposal Evaluation
·
Stefan
Buhrmester and Vipin Bharathan have volunteered to help edit an initial
template for TSC review
Proposals for Common Starting Points
·
Previous
discussion
o Networking
o BFT
o Storage
o Cryptographic
libraries
o Member services
·
Consensus:
start lower down the stack where people are much closer in agreement, and
then slowly work up the stack.
·
Needed:
create a github markdown doc for documenting use cases
Agenda Draft for 2/18 TSC Meeting
·
Discussion
on basic use cases to address
·
High-level
thoughts on how proposed contributions could be converged
·
Walk-through
of project proposal template (Stefan Buhrmester and Vipin Bharathan)
Previous Discussions from
Formation Meetings
·
Evaluation Criteria
o Security
o Interoperability
o Scalability
o Extensibility
o Deployment
Environment
o Ecosystem
o Change
Management
o Resilience
·
Functional Requirements
o Contract
Execution Environment
o Transaction
o Block of
Transactions
o Network
o Consensus/Validation
o Authentication
& Entitlements
o Reference
Data
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Michael Dolan <mdolan@...>
wrote:
Welcome to the (now official) Hyperledger Community. Thank you
to everyone who helped with the launch of the project and getting everything
lined up for a very strong start.
We have a technical community call scheduled for Thursday at
10am Eastern Time. The GoToMeeting details are below. Our apologies for last week’s
disruption with the 25 person limit. We have fixed that issue and now have a
100 person capacity. I’m also copying both the TSC and the technical-discuss
mailing lists. In the future, we will just use the TSC mailing list for TSC
meetings. However, I didn’t want to miss anyone this first week, so I’ve copied
both lists. If you have not signed up for any mailing lists, you will want to
do so here: https://lists.hyperledger.org/mailman/listinfo
I look forward to our discussion tomorrow.
I’ll propose the agenda below for tomorrow, if you have
other thoughts / comments, please let me know.
- Process for electing a TSC Chair (10 mins).
Also, if you are a Premier member and have not yet notified Todd (CC’d) of
your TSC Chair representative, please do so ASAP. We will distribute a
list of the TSC reps to the TSC when we have everyone identified.
- Discussion of tools/services that would be
helpful to the community. We have setup IRC: #hyperledger on
freenode with Meetbot. We have the mailing lists. Does the TSC want to see
anything else? E.g. Slack? A wiki such as https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/hyperledger
shared wiki or setup wiki.hyperledger.org?
- Future meeting day/times? Do we use this time
slot for the TSC going forward or does the TSC prefer a different cadence
and/or time or day?
- Discuss where/how to land code. Common question
we’re getting is “where is the code?” Need to discuss how to get proposed
code into public review.
- Discuss process for getting to a code starting
point. Proposal template for evaluation?
- Discuss proposals for the common starting
points
- Networking
- BFT
- Storage
- Cryptographic libraries
- Member services
1. Proposed TSC Chair Election Process
- Begin nomination period: Thursday, Feb 11th,
nominations includes a short bio/pitch less than 1 page
- End nomination period: 9pm Pacific Time
on Wednesday, Feb 17th
- Send slate of respective nominees
to Silver Members: Thursday, Feb 18th
- Send TSC members the ballot link to electronic
voting: Thursday, Feb 18th using Condorcet voting
(http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/)
- Voting period ends: Tuesday,
Feb 23rd at 9pm Pacific Time
- Election winners announced: Wednesday,
Feb 24th
You can also dial in using your phone.
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