App Directory Working Group (merged with API Working Group)

The Working Group was ratified by the PMC on 2018-02-28. See the Program Proposal for details on the progress of the group

The App Directory Working Group was merged with the API Working Group in November 2019. Please refer to the API Working Group wiki for all recent (post-November 2019) activities.

The FDC3 App Directory provides trusted identity for financial desktop apps. This identity can be used to prevent spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks when apps communicate with one another and exchange data. The App Directory also enables service discovery. Apps are registered with a declaration of the intents and context data that can be used when interoperating.

Group Information

Meeting Minutes
Mailing list: fdc3-app-directory@finos.org
Google Groups
Specification
Meetings
- Schedule: group meets on an ad-hoc basis. Work is mainly carried out via Google Groups and github.

The team

Chair(s)

Name	Organization	Role
Nicholas Kolba	OpenFin	CTO

Members

Name	Organization	Role
Chuck Danielsson	OpenFin	Member
Johan Sandersson	Factset	Member
Jonathan Teper	JPM	Member
Rhyddian Olds	DB	Member
Slava Kyrukoy	DB	Member
Jorge Santos	Thomson Reuters	Member
Christopher McGuire	Citadel	Member
Istvan Farmosi	Morgan Stanley	Member
Leslie Spiro	Tick42	Member
Tim Kolecke	Citadel	Member
Espen Overbye	OpenFin	Member
Ricko Eksteen	Weare Adaptive	Member
Richard Linnell	Weare Adaptive	Member
Philip Broadbent	OpenFin	Member
Nimit Shah	OpenFin	Member

Working group pages

Working Group Charter

Summary

The primary purpose of this working group is to produce industry standards for App Directories that can perform the following functions:

Provide verification of identity for an application running on a desktop - whether it is Native, Web, or Hybrid.
Resolve human readable names for applications to the location of and instructions for launching
Serve as a repository for application metadata supporting discoverability by intent, context, and other workflow driven facets.

Scope

Key points about the scope of the FDC3 App Directory standards:

Scope to include standards specifications and reference implementations
App Directory is not an App Store standard
App Directory standards must operate across financial platforms.
Internals of platforms, such as entitlements, are out of scope

Deliverables

The App Directory working group will be focused on delivering the following standards:

App Directory schema & API requirements
App name resolution
App launch resolution
App directory federation

Participation

To be successful, the FDC3 is expected to have a critical mass of active participants for its duration. Effective participation in the FDC3 means participation in the form of research, authoring, editing, and development activities outside the scope of attending regular meetings

Licensing

The FDC3 will use Apache2 license or similar for all deliverables.

Group information

Info	Value	Comments
Nature	Permanent	Manages the taxonomy for FDC3 standard intents naming and definitions.
Occurrence
Visibility	Private	until FINOS launch
Mailing List		Archives here (requires Foundation Login)
Meetings minutes		Notes, actions and decisions of WG meetings.
Working Group Documents		Input and deliverables documents from this WG.

Tasks

Description	Assignee	Task appears on
Add "search_type" to search parameters - Frank Tarsillo (Deactivated)	Frank Tarsillo (Deactivated)	2019-04-10 FDC3 AppD WG Meeting Notes
Update appd-poc to include new proposed specification - Frank Tarsillo (Deactivated)	Frank Tarsillo (Deactivated)	2019-04-10 FDC3 AppD WG Meeting Notes
Maven / Stubs - Maurizio Pillitu and Frank Tarsillo (Deactivated)	Maurizio Pillitu	2019-04-10 FDC3 AppD WG Meeting Notes

Activity Stream

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