Asses Blockchain Deployment Toolkit by World Economic Forum

[beeshot]

Relevant for our framework?

http://widgets.weforum.org/blockchain-toolkit/consortium-governance/

[kiview]

This is an interesting finding. One could even say, this is the exactly the same kind of artifact we aim to create, especially if you navigate the given URL one level up, to Blockchain-Toolkit.

It seems to be crucial, that someone works through this toolkit, assesses it accordingly and identifies in which ways we should improve upon this (identify limitations), where we should diverge completely, or where our aim/focus differs.

It is published under a classic copyright license it seems and it does not seem to have an open process attached by which a community is working on this. So on a first look, this might be the niche we should target?

The WEF consulted extensively with more than 100 organizations, including SMEs and academics. The majority of the contributions came from the WEF, consultant Deloitte which co-authored previous papers, and law firm Latham & Watkins.

The WEF stated, that the Linux Foundation (and therefore Hyperledger) was consulted as well.

Another differentiating factor is it being created by a US community, while we starting from a European POV.

[beeshot]

Do you think it makes sense to split the document (e.g. according to working groups ) in order to be a bit quicker?

[kiview]

These are the modules in their toolkit:

I propose the following split according to workgroups

• Technical
  • Digital Identity
  • Interoperability
  • Public / Private
  • Data protection
  • Data integrity
  • Cybersecurity
  • Risk factors
• Legal
  • Personal data handling
  • Legal and Regulatory Compliance
• Governance
  • Consortium Formation
  • Consortium Governance
• Economy
  • Tax implications
  • Financial reporting and controls

[andionita]

I reviewed the Governance sections (Consortium Formation & Consortium Governance).

The Consortium Formation article is not a formal specification, it reads more like a guide from a consultancy firm or a magazine-type of article. It concentrates on the management decision that should be taken to form a consortium or to join one.

The Consortium Governance section is split into Business Governance and Operational Governance. I summarized the Operational Governance part in https://github.com/internet-sicherheit/eco-blockchain-governance/blob/master/misc/governance/weforum_governance.md

[kiview]

The Consortium Formation article is not a formal specification, it reads more like a guide from a consultancy firm or a magazine-type of article.

This is an interesting observation, which mirrors my personal impression. Thanks for working on this.

[kiview]

I just gave the Cybersecurity section a small spin. It contains a very good PoC example, but the rest is generalized and abstracted to a point, where it basically becomes useless.

In the light of #12 and #14, I also tried to find some guidelines with regards to software and hardware, but couldn't find anything.