Office Hours

Due to holiday conflicts, no new topics are scheduled for this meeting. Participants are invited to raise any readiness issues they'd like to discuss with the broader group.

Several participants busy with post-holiday work.

Participants discussed what (if any) policies their firms had regarding approval to participate in FINOS working groups. Responses varied: one firm has no policy, but participation is typically requested or cleared by manager; another has no express policy but access to certain WG resources may require firewall/proxy exemption; another participant expressed hesitation about participating in meetings that are transcripted, because of the firm's policy on public statements.

Aaron Williamson informed participants that FINOS would be rolling out a new working group minute-taking policy that would direct WG chairs to request express permission before attributing comments to specific individuals or firms.