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Nick: We like to have anyone who is new introduce themselves. This mtg can be an intro to FDC3.
Working Group Updates
Updates from all WG. Updates should be given from the chair.
API WG
- The past 4 weeks of August has been a slower cadence than we should see i the coming weeks.
- Has been going back and forth with some fundamental questions on the scope and standards.
- PR has been approved although the spec hasn’t been fully approved.
- Highlights are to try to make clear how one can build a more tighltly coupled RPC system on top of the standards/ Intention.
- There is an idea of hte desktop agen that exposes the FDC3 API to the app nd fulfills the interop functionality on behafl of the app. It will connetct ot one or more app directories and multiple agents. Will resolved intents, launch apps, context data. Most of what needs to be standardised are the interfaces.
Context Data
Tim - Had our first context data mtg two weeks ago. Had discussions around how you can use context data, how you can assign particular types. Have some examples but not actual specs. Specifying what an FDC3 vs Other context would be and give some examples.
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Nick: Can do this through different type, but also through different identifiers -- idea is that you can have any number of identifiers. One thing that would be valuable would
Intents WG Update
Nick to give update for Espen.
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Leslie: The AppDirectory says I can publish these intents and tends to specify context API. General idea is that an intent is invoked with a context and that they work closely together with
Use Cases WG
Kat gave here update
- We’ve been going through both what is a use case as well as the governance of approval
- 3 stage process, everything managed in confluence
- Ad hoc
- Submitted for approval
- Approval / Rejected
- Approval → discussions with relevant use cases; flesh out which WGs need to be involved
- Acceptance guidelines
- How a long discussion of this
- What personas (actors) should we include -- e.g., do we include a CTO in this?
- Decided to do a couple technologists use case to start
- Initial traunch of use cases -- then there will be a vote after the meeting on Thursday; anyone who comments can vote on accept or reject on the initial set.
- We are not going to manage it like this going foward (they will do ad hoc, not by set)
- JT: this is really exciting -- to be asking “is this valid?”, “Is this useful?” -- it is important the people evaluate against a set of criteria -- we are asking participants to review against a set of criteria … vote will happen by email following the call and then close on Mondy