Technology Architecture Working Group Minutes - April 13th 9 AM EST

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Common Domain Model Technology Architecture WG Meeting

Date

April 13th, 2023- 9am ET / 2pm GMT

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Agenda

[x] Convene & roll call (5mins)
[x] Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
[x] Review Meeting Notices (see above)
[x] Approve past meeting minutes
[x] Introduction to the group
[x] Proposed Terms of Reference

Purpose To discuss and actively enhance the Common Domain Model (CDM) to expand its support for existing and future technologies, tooling, services, infrastructure and deployment architectures.

Scope The group shall discuss and agree upon enhancements in relation to the technological development and improvement of the CDM. Where appropriate, the group will undertake the work required to develop and contribute the changes for these enhancements into the production CDM.

Topics for discussion – in no particular order – include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Defining discrete and self-contained use cases which will benefit technology, service or data providers and encourage broader CDM usage
Make it easier to pick and use the model by providing implementation code examples and deployment architecture examples
Improve existing tooling and expand tooling options
Support for more programming languages/code generators out of the box
Collaboration with other FINOS projects like FDC3 and Legend
Incorporation of external code into the CDM distribution
Discover and recover technical debt wherever possible
Expand and improve test case depth and coverage
Document technical aspects of the model usage and deployment

Responsibilities As outlined in README.md, the initial maintainers of the CDM Technology Architecture Working Group will be nominated by ISLA, ISDA and ICMA. Additional Maintainers can be proposed by the working group participants and approved by the existing Maintainers.

Participants of the group will be expected to get actively involved in further developing the CDM. This could be related to data modelling, developing additional programs, tooling or test cases, or assisting with documentation and technical authoring.

Where a recommendation has been made by the group, participants with the relevant skillset will be encouraged to assist with the work required to promote the changes to the production CDM.

Membership The group is open to all members of the FINOS community with an interest in furthering the technology and infrastructure supporting the Common Domain Model.

It is expected that participants of the group will have a background in modelling, application development or deployment, API or service implementation or technical architecture.

An understanding of financial markets and trading is preferable.

Recommendations and decision-making As outlined in governance.md, the CDM Technology Architecture Working Group will operate by consensus-based decision-making.

[x] Specific Projects to consider
[x] Community raised Projects
- CDM Version update in Legend
[x] Next Meeting Date: 11th May 2023 Time: UK 2pm
[x] AOB, Q&A & Adjourn (5mins)
[x] Join us for our first FINOS in-person Hackathon at the BMO (Bank of Montreal) offices in New York City. Sign up here. Explore the use cases here and if you have some you’d like to share, contact our CTO Maurizio Pillitu.
[x] Register for our first member meeting hosted at J.P. Morgan Chase - Embankment, London on June 14th - 15th. We’ll also have some public events! Read more below. Do you have a real world example of a FINOS project that you could demo? Showcase it at the member meeting as part of our project expo. Reach out to marketing@finos.org or eteri.dvalishvili@finos.org.

Decisions Made

[x] Decision 1: Terms of Reference (ToR) should be more general in nature
[x] Decision 2: Need more definition around the role of Maintainers for the group (to be added/referenced in the ToR)
[x] Decision 3: ToR should also describe what is out of scope for this group
[x] Decision 4: First project proposed as analysis of CDM versioning/build

Action Items

[x] Action 1: Chris: Contact those nominated as Maintainers for the WG
[x] Action 2: Chris: Update the ToR into a new draft for the next meeting
[x] Action 3: Chris: Take suggested specific projects out of the Scope above into the Ideas section of the CDM github
[x] Action 4: Chris: Define Agenda for next meeting:
- Review ToR changes
- Nominated Maintainer introductions and approval by participants
- Discuss and prioritise initial projects
- Feedback on usage by the community of Legend and Rosetta