umma08
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4 years ago I (midipoet) would like to add an agenda item to the -lab meeting for open discussion:
tl;dr we need sarang to be a member of ISO TC307. it costs $2200. if possible, and the community agrees, we should try and get it absorbed by the CCS.
2. Discussion of Sarang becoming a member of: International Standards Organisation Technical Committee 307 - Blockchain and distributed ledgers
Just to give a bit of background to this. I have become involved in ISO TC307 for the last few months. One of the documents the ISO have been working on is:
ISO/TR 23244 Privacy and Personally Identifiable Information protection considerations.
The final text went for ballot to the respective delegations (national bodies). I fed this into #monero-research-lab, as there is mention and description of a few elements relevant to Monero (ring sigs, stealth addresses, pederson commitments, etc).
Sarang felt that some amendments were required to the text. I fed these comments back into WG2 - Security, Privacy and Identity. The workgroup agreed that the document should be amended, so they opened up the text for comments from members of the work group.
I propose to ensure Sarang can engage on behalf of the Monero community (instead of going through me). I feel this would be more effiecient and correct (as i am nowhere near as technical). This would allow me to work on aspects that i feel suited to (Governance, Identity, PII/PIA/DPIA), while Sarang can represent Monero (and open source cryptocurrency/networks in general) on some of the more technical documents/elements - of which the WGs will be moving into shortly, like Zero Knowledge Proofs, Multi-party Computation, etc.
Long story short: Membership by the ITIC (US National Standards Body) is ~$2200 per year, and the national mirror commitee for ISO TC307. There are reduced rates, but its not clear whether we are able to access them. Either way, i woud like a discussion opened on whether the fee for this membership should be absorbed by a CCS. There are about 2-4 meetings a month (two hours). they are not mandatory. There are also in person events (covid restricted now) once or twice a year, where much work is done on standards.
Personally, i feel that having representation from privacy centric and/or open source communities is extremely important, as these documents do actually end up having influence at both policy level (legislation) and at the level of wider adoption (e.g. CBDCs and corporate/premissioned chains). This may end up impacting on us in one way or another.
Please note, that the request for comments/input into TR 23244 is now, and runs for a remaining two weeks approx (we have lost a week or so getting this sorted for one reason or another).
Also please note, that NOT ALL countries charge for membership. My country does not, for example. I assume it's an ideology thing. Not my issue, blame capatalism or something or other.
Mitchellpkt
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