Yeah, no worries. Hey Steve. How are you. Great. Welcome, man, what am I need to turn on my camera and just say hello. Alright, try save bandwidth, um, let's see here, so we're gonna be in Tallinn in a couple of weeks. I will be. Yeah, so that'll be cool. Yes. Yeah, finally, great day, great to meet you. Yes. Yeah,
yeah, I'm not sure we've got funding and I'm not sure I'd be allowed into Europe still
12 If you can make it, I mean if you want me to, you know, I mean, it'd be great to have you, Trevor if you want to come, I can see if I can make it happen. Yeah, I'll be. I'd love to go because I haven't been traveling
for a long time but I think that the other thing is that, you know, SAP has a no travel policy. So that's probably going to be the biggest blocker is, they only allow, like, usually it's just the senior executive team from Europe to fly in or something like that so there are a few people flying around but not many. And I mean, our office is sort of closed and.
All right, well, that's, that's too bad. Yes. Well, so, um. Alright, Well I guess we might as well get started, I'm not sure if Romer is going to join or not but, um, I know he's got a lot on. So, um, you know, I guess the first thing that we might want to do is just a look at the checklist, together. just so we all have an overview of kind of where the, where the teams are at. So, I'm, I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen and we can look at that together. So, um, so let's just start all the way on the left. So and then, Oh for reference sake, also, um, paste this URL in the chat, so you can look at it. Um. Alright, so, uh, let's start there so IB, um, you know, they're, they're still targeting the use cases for the end of next month, it looks like. So I think what you know, I reached out to Valerie some time ago and she said that. The reason for this was because a lot of people are on vacation at the World Bank and whatnot. Um, so, still waiting on that feels like a bit of a holding pattern. But I've, you know, worked with security and registration to just come up with a mitigation and kind of break the mitigation strategy and break the gridlock, which I'll talk about in a little, little bit. Um, so yeah. Uh, I don't have much of an update from them, payments I've asked to fill this in, but they've been on vacation for the past month, but they have requested a formal review. So aren't old request a formal review of the payment spec. So let me just dig that. Well, I'll send that afterwards. Um, yeah, but that one. Yeah, well I'll send it here. So the payments, building block. We need to review.
So you can access that easily, there's a link to that. And I've asked him to fill in these target dates in what they've done and haven't done, but they haven't obviously haven't done that information mediator is in pretty good shape. So we're proceeding with a formal review of that, um, uh, you know, they've got, they're still working pretty much on their API descriptions for the most part, right, and there might be new use cases, they might be different capabilities for each use case not likely, but so they're in pretty good shape. And so their review is in progress. Registration. I asked him to fill in some dates but you can see the registration is in pretty good shape, at least as far as like the, these are done, these, these items are marked as done. Um, so they've asked where their reviews in progress but you know, a bit back burnered been really focusing on the security reviews registries. So, same thing, they need to fill this out, um, that is probably getting closer to ready for review. Security is the one that we've been spending the most time on, and it's looking really pretty good. Um, there's a bunch of discussions that have been ongoing about API definitions and you know how we standardize flows for authentication, which I think we've finally cracked the code for and I'll go over those in a minute. And that's also how we kind of mitigate the kind of lack of communication from from ideas just by isolating their functionality there and these one of these cross building block workflows, so it shouldn't affect the other building blocks so much. Um, and then us, so this is just, I haven't really read a lot these don't really apply to us. So what we did done is go in and fill out what we think the rough amount of timeframe is like how much time each of these things should take right so onboarding is about a week. Introduction of use cases maybe a week. You know, launch the group, two months. Define the list of functionalities one month, that prospect practical use cases to go stack assumptions and definitions two months and then requirements another month so I don't know they these are just kind of our guesstimates. So, any questions about this, um. Okay, so that's, yeah, go ahead.
No, that's great. I think this is really helpful. I'm gonna pass this on to Jake and the rest of the team on our side just so they're all aware,
yeah. Cool. Yeah, I mean, so, you know, it's sort of self reporting. So, um, you know the issue tracker I guess we're not really gonna review the issue tracker. So, I have brought this up, so I've been bringing this up. You know just reviewing the checklist. You know, I think this is still an ongoing issue right that we need to set the expectations around guff SEC is and is not, that is a essentially interoperability standards and a set of reference specifications at this point, it's not a complete solution that's ready to deploy in the Horn of Africa, not today anyway. Um, so had some discussions with honey about that now that he's back. But I think we really need to refine the language and the positioning of, you know, probably an NGO sector global is the place to do it. Um, and then we're still working on how ghosthack released existing DP G's like open Ms. So, and this is something we talked through. Right, so do we expect open MSX to decompose their digital public good into building blocks for compliance or is interoperability by calling into some set of ghost deck API's or access to the fire registry via God stack adapter in the other direction enough. I think that's enough personally, And then Ramkumar is coming so yay that's exciting. That was a little bit of a nail biter but it looks like he's gonna make it all the way over from India, which is awesome. Um, so, and I don't you know I asked honey about this RFI situation. Um, and I don't, you know, he just said that there was some feedback but he didn't seem to have a whole lot of details about it so I apologize I probably need to loop back with Sarah at gi Zed for that. Um, and then, uh, you know, I guess the other things that we really need to look at are the payments building block registries, so let's see and then I'll send out the review the document for review for registration. But you know, again, we're really focused on the security building block so any questions about any of that stuff. All right, so, um, I guess the next thing that I wanted to touch base on is this sort of publishing process that Trevor you you've been working extensively on that and working with, with the security team to make sure that we have these numbered columns and headers, right. And I think we've got that now. Um, and if you look at the to see, this is all there so that's that's fairly functional. Right. And these are all kind of cross linked, so it's in pretty good shape. I think it's good enough, it's good enough shape to publish a draft. So, I'm
updating the column on the, on the tables there because that's not nothing but a decision log but on the actual columns itself because this was the problem that you couldn't reference. If you were responding to an RFI or if you were referencing one of these, each one of these line items has to be numbers, as he put those.
Yes. So you can okay
yeah okay
so they're all there and you can jump right to it from the TRC. Um, so yeah I mean he's pretty much done what we talked about. Oh, okay. So I think this is in pretty good shape and we're ready to publish a draft. Um, yeah. So, you know one thing Steve that kind of became clear is that us putting this in a table might be sending the wrong signal because it makes it harder to structure it as an outline.
Yeah, yeah that makes sense. I mean we can certainly de table isn't just in Denton.
Exactly. Because then, then, then the outlines kind of come out more naturally where's this I think he had to force it a little bit and, yeah, manipulate the styling and whatever. So, uh, but I think that so the good news is, You know, if I mean I think we should look through it. Oh, sorry, we should probably paste a link to in the chat. Um, so that you all can look at it on your screen as well, but I think it's a, you know, probably a good enough to publish a draft. And what this will allow us to do is, people can start, so that the idea is I'm glad you're here, Steve, to talk about talk this through is that we publish a PDF file. So we say that, you know, we print a PDF right or Export as pdf and we publish it on GM stack dot global and then that is what people create links to, rather than trying to create links like this, you know like this URL here. I mean there's certainly these work but they're not very stated in the case that the document, you know is moved out of Google Docs or somebody loses access or whatever. Right, yeah. So, um, I could use, you know probably use your help in getting a PDF file published or you know just getting access to a portion of the site, where I can, you know, SFTP in or something and just publish specs. So if you can help me out with that I'd greatly appreciate it.
Yes, I can. Yeah if you maybe if you can generate the PDF, and then link it to me that I can work with Trish and the team to like find to find a place on the ghost act a global site and link it up. We'll just need to figure out our language around, figure out how we want to structure the site in terms of where we put the specs, and then figure out the language around these are draft specs.
Right. Um, yeah, So, I mean there are some standards that Trevor has been working on in terms of like the filename. So download Can I get a PDF from No. I've actually printed to PDF. Okay. Um, so I'll save this as PDF, and we can look at that. Yeah. And then I think David had some suggestions around versioning, just in the file name. So maybe you want to look at that so it's one dot O dot one he's got the date there so he updated that as well. Okay, so, security building block definition. So how do we want to, what Trevor refresh me on the, you know, refresh my memory are we doing underscores or dashes. Yeah, I
think there are still underscores was just easier, just in case there are any kind of systems that like you could you could put the file name as a URL. Yeah, if you had the underscores I think that was the thinking behind it.
Okay so, and then should we put both the version number and the date. Yeah, I think
I just tend to put the version number in, to be honest.
Yep, perfect can live somewhere in the dark.
Yeah it does, it is in the dock, it's kind of baked into the dock so okay so now we're gonna have some sort of a I guess just for consistency I'll put that in there, so. Okay, so. Alright so let me just take a look at that, see how that looks. Uh, let's see. And we can look at that, together, hey, it looks pretty reasonable and look, I can click on that, it jumps me around, I can go look at that. Okay, cool. So it seems pretty reasonable. It all came out okay. Um, so, uh, great. So, um, I will send this to you and then maybe you can work on getting me access in some way, if that works.
Yeah, I don't know how they're doing. I'm not. I don't have access to the Gulf Gulf tech site. Right. I think Trish is working with mature, well, but
okay. All right, well, cool. Well anyway, I'll send that afterwards and we can publish it, and then, you know, I think the theory is that we'll be able to you know, we can at least prototype the process. Hopefully, you know, by the end of this week. If you guys yes. Okay, excellent. Um, So that's kind of like the big thing that we wanted to get done, um, uh, let's see, um, there are also there's a bunch of groups that are going to be on boarded. Um, so, I think, on the first on around the first they're going to be onboarding. So we should really adjust any of the templates, like the building block definition template to, you know, if we want to make adjustments there. Might as well do that now, Dear.