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Discussion of blockchains for the Blockchain Community Group and workshops
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change mission statement #16

Open mountielee opened 8 years ago

mountielee commented 8 years ago

current statement is as following

"The mission of the the Blockchain Community Group is to generate message format standards of Blockchain based on ISO20022 and to generate guidelines for usage of storage including torrent, public blockchain, private blockchain, side chain and CDN. This group will study and evaluate new technologies related to blockchain, and use cases such as interbank communications."

and the suggestion is as following

The mission of the Blockchain Community Group is to unleash blockchain to its full potential by working in the areas, but not limited, to the following:

mountielee commented 8 years ago

comment from Wayne Vaughan

I'd like to make two suggestions.

1) The primary use case for blockchains is payments. I propose the mission statement include something about payments. Example: To develop standards around blockchain payments and integration of wallet technology into browsers and other apps.

2) There is a lot of hype and confusion about blockchain technology. The very definition of blockchain is in question to many. I propose the mission statement include something about clarifying the confusion. Example: To maintain a set of definitions of blockchain technologies, explore emerging blockchain technologies and provide analysis on their utility vs existing technologies."

I recognize that second recommendation may fall outside the traditional role of the W3C. However I think it's worth considering given the state of the industry.

Wayne

mountielee commented 8 years ago

comment from Melvin Carvalho

+1

Regarding the storage point. Why not add HTML to that list as it would then cover the many block explorers out there and work nicely with the web?

mountielee commented 8 years ago

comment from Lemieux, Victoria

omments on the mission statement:

  1. I like the original version below, but think we could also add “To consider how blockchain standards can leverage or inter-operate with existing W3C standards”
  2. Although I am sympathetic with the spirit of integreting blockchain payments and integration of wallet technology into browsers and other apps, I actually don’t agree that the PRIMARY use case for blockchains is payments. This may become more obvious as we gather together specific use cases.
  3. I agree that it will be helpful to start systematically capturing/developing a blockchain terminological database.
  4. We may also want to consider other standard making initiatives, e.g., the aforementioned ISO Blockchain standard initiative, and how our work can leverage/support/fill gaps.
mountielee commented 8 years ago

comment from Jacques Favier

I cannot approve more than I do, on both suggestions

mountielee commented 8 years ago

comment from Marta Piekarska

I absolutely agree. It so happens that today the Blockchain is implemented mostly as Bitcoin Blockchain. But as we move forward and solve some of the issues (privacy, speed etc) we will start seeing more applications. To put it in a more controversial way: if we believe that the Blockchain should be used for financial world only then why even start a CG, and not incubate a task force in the web payments?

mountielee commented 8 years ago

comment from Jay Kishigami

+1 to Marta

mountielee commented 8 years ago

comment from Roets, John

+1 I totally agree that we need to very explicitly call out the future importance of non-payment, non-financial, and non-currency applications of blockchain technology.

(: My only weigh in on W3C considerations is that there may be something to be said about creation of a decentralized governance model as a more appropriate authority for standardization of this particular technology, but that's not necessarily a productive conversation :)