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"Wise Contracts" - smart contracts and prose objects - paper now on SSRN
by James Hazard 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

The paper that Helena Haapio and I did on the fit between smart contracts and prose objects is now available on SSRN. It extends the "Ricardian contract" paradigm of Ian Grigg that has been picked up by R3cev, Barclays and others. At the same time, I started making prose objects - CommonAccord document solutions - as separate git repos. The fit is good - a git repo is a useful "punctuation" (@xmlgrrl) for a prose object. It follows in the footsteps of how coders collaborate. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2925871 http://source.commonaccord.org/index.php?action=list&file=G/ Greetings from sunny Sacramento. -- @commonaccord

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Meeting and editing schedule
by Eve Maler 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Hello all-- Thomas and I are editing and collaborating away, and making sure not to miss all the pearls of wisdom in our meeting minutes, wiki, and email threads. Therefore, during this period, we will not be holding meetings until we have a complete first draft of the Report for your to review; the target date for that is Tuesday, March 28. We'd like to ask the Kantara staff to remove the calendar entries for the meetings before then. For those who want to make comments on the Report by the date -- or even anytime before -- please be sure to review it online and make *written* comments. If you need commenting/suggestion access, please do that through the Google Docs mechanism or contact us. We have begun putting to-do items at the end of the document. Most are for us, but some are for other contributors. You generally know who you are. :-) We'll be contacting/namechecking you folks as we go. Thank you all for your support and your awesome contributions! If any question, you know where live (virtually :-) ). *Eve Maler*ForgeRock Office of the CTO | VP Innovation & Emerging Technology Cell +1 425.345.6756 | Skype: xmlgrrl | Twitter: @xmlgrrl

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Sorry for the late notice; Thomas and I will be editing this week
by Eve Maler 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

We will plan to ask for some fresh reviews by the end of the week. No DG meetings tomorrow or Thursday. I cc'd Kantara staff to ask them to remove the calendar entries (realizing it's a bit late to let people know about the Tuesday meeting...). Thomas, let's Skype tomorrow about our 1:1 meeting schedule now that I'm back. *Eve Maler*ForgeRock Office of the CTO | VP Innovation & Emerging Technology Cell +1 425.345.6756 | Skype: xmlgrrl | Twitter: @xmlgrrl

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Northern Trust and IBM announce a blockchain for p...
by John Wunderlich 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

https://qz.com/916601/northern-trust-and-ibm-announce-a-blockchain-for-priv… John Wunderlich, Sent frum a mobile device, Pleez 4give speling erurz "...a world of near-total surveillance and endless record-keeping is likely to be one with less liberty, less experimentation, and certainly far less joy..." A. Michael Froomkin -- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.

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No BSC telecon this Thursday
by Eve Maler 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi folks-- Thomas and I are going to go into heads-down editing mode over the next little while again; as I described on the call today, I'll be collecting as many action items from our meeting notes, emails, and report comments as possible. So there is no call this Thursday, February 23. I've cc'd Kantara staff to ask them to please remove it from our calendar. *Eve Maler*ForgeRock Office of the CTO | VP Innovation & Emerging Technology Cell +1 425.345.6756 | Skype: xmlgrrl | Twitter: @xmlgrrl

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Notes from BSC telecon Tuesday, February 21
by Eve Maler 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/BSC/2017-02+%28February+201… Agenda: - Report <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HOVJ3lKqOIjwCqPt5jFxfLr7wEoJ0ZVNbMGsdsW…> work Attending: Eve, Susan, Thomas, John, Devon We examined our Technologies definition of "blockchain" and Steve Wilson's email critique, and are satisfied that it shouldn't excite antibodies among the experts (see this blog post <https://blog.blockstack.org/blockchain-terminology-a-grammar-usage-guide-ff…> ). AI: Eve: Add a terminology definition of "blockchain" (cheekily pointing to the blog post). AI: Eve: Share Jim H's Wise Contracts paper with Devon et al. Jim H and Eve had a mind meld about how he believes P2P is the main value of decentralization, not the blockchain technology part. Eve can't run the Thursday call; she'll ask if Thomas can. *Eve Maler*ForgeRock Office of the CTO | VP Innovation & Emerging Technology Cell +1 425.345.6756 | Skype: xmlgrrl | Twitter: @xmlgrrl

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"The Corda Way of Thinking"
by James Hazard 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

This seems a very good explanation of a transacting as a sequence of record synchronizations. Index cards as ledger entries: https://gendal.me/2017/02/21/the-corda-way-of-thinking/ I don't understand, and perhaps disagree, with the notion that a subsequent step in a transaction is associated with removal of the prior step. That seems tidy, but problematic. It seems more reliable to start from the assumption that each step supplements the prior state. This is also how many systems (including legal) currently work. As in our example of the life cycle of a (paper) check: http://www.commonaccord.org/index.php?action=doc&file=bqc/fr/bnpp/a5we/Acco… Of course, it will sometimes be useful to collapse prior steps into a subsequent one, not least when the prior steps are drafts or erroneous. And the right to be forgotten or efficiency will require purging. There are parallels to this in git, which assumes retention of prior states but allows collapsing and deletion. That quibble aside, the explanation seems very clear and focuses on the essential advantage of "DLTs": common record formats and granular synchronization. -- @commonaccord

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EU- ENISA Doc
by Thorsten H. Niebuhr [WedaCon GmbH] 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Just came across this one today, nice section about DL specific challenges https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/blockchain-security/at_download/fu… Thorsten

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Deloitte UK's SmartID, based on Ethereum/smart contracts
by Eve Maler 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

http://www.deloitte.co.uk/smartid/ https://github.com/SmartIdentity/smartId-contracts I'm definitely getting YABIP (yet another blockchain identity platform) overload. :-) *Eve Maler*ForgeRock Office of the CTO | VP Innovation & Emerging Technology Cell +1 425.345.6756 | Skype: xmlgrrl | Twitter: @xmlgrrl

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Notes from BSC telecon Tuesday, February 7 ("trust tree" slide attached)
by Eve Maler 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/BSC/2017-02+%28February+201… Agenda: - Report <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HOVJ3lKqOIjwCqPt5jFxfLr7wEoJ0ZVNbMGsdsW…> work Attending: Eve, Thomas, Kathleen, JohnW, Matisse, Marco, Susan, Adrian, Jeff Discussion of Jeff's critique/comments: - Is the challenge with the phrase "blockchain technology" that it is being taken to apply only to the specific encryption technique? It appears so. We discussed how there are two uses of the phrase "blockchain", where a preponderance of the world uses "blockchain" to mean the entirety of the set of technologies; Jeff is using it to mean just some subset involving encryption. Matisse's professor taught her that "In traditional finance, the bank sends an encrypted transaction between clear people, while in Bitcoin, the bank sends a clear transaction between encrypted people." We edited our Blockchain technology section slightly to make clear that we mean "the whole, not the part". - Does the ethical diamond use case get in our way because the diamond miners have challenges that other use cases <https://www.provenance.org/news/category/technology/> wouldn't, such as high-value pharmaceuticals or luxury goods? See this story <https://www.provenance.org/news/technology/blockchains-and-human-rights/> on blockchain and human rights. Susan will reach out to Everledger to ask a few questions about the workers involved in the diamond case and Eve will reach out to Vchain to ask them to fill out a questionnaire regarding their border control (not "human empowerment") use case. - What impact is there on OPAL/Enigma in thinking about where data is stored: central servers vs. distributed servers vs. clients? Enigma is on distributed servers; all the nodes act as a data server; the data is encrypted into shares. OPAL simply means moving the queries to the data. You can accept (consent to) algorithms running over your data. - We're all in agreement that the key problems of identity, such as verification/proofing, credential linking, etc., are not solved by blockchain itself. AIs: - Susan above - Eve above - Eve to send out PPT - Jeff to comment on the doc from his "new eyes" perspective *Eve Maler*ForgeRock Office of the CTO | VP Innovation & Emerging Technology Cell +1 425.345.6756 | Skype: xmlgrrl | Twitter: @xmlgrrl

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