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The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) ensures that the governance of Cardano is based upon sound technical awareness and best practices. The committee's duties are expected to include:
Facilitating delivery & technical assurance from and suppliers
Coordination of major integrations and technical events, such as hard forks
Facilitating peer review of technical recommendations from other committees, such as Open Source & the Parameter committee
Recommending the execution details of the backlog (backlog currently under design from the )
Drafting of milestone deliverables, acceptance criteria, and quality assurance for the execution recommendation
Facilitating a tender/award process for major contracts with members
Coordination of working groups focused on the above
The committee is a rallying point for key members, suppliers, and third parties to coordinate the delivery of development services to support the Cardano blockchain. The committee facilitates contract arrangements and service level agreements, creates proposals of technical concern, and reviews, and evaluates proposals prepared by the Cardano community, such as parameter updates or hard forks.
The TSC takes a leading role in defining and advising on development to support the Cardano network, including contracts and agreements with Intersect members. It’s a highly technocratic committee, providing deep technical analysis and advice to ongoing development projects, parameters settings (through the ), and any other network related conditions.
It is proposed the TSC will work in conjunction with the for budgetary assignment, ratification, and other financial matters. It is also proposed the TSC will work in combination with the proposed backlog committee, under the premise of the backlog committee being responsible for the ‘what’, and the TSC for the ‘how’.
The membership of the TSC will need to consider how it handles sensitive or confidential contractual information. It will also need to define how it handles sensitive security information.
Welcome to the Committee/Introductions as required
Delivery Update (upcoming and significant delivery milestones)
Actions review of the TSC
Updates from Working Groups
AOB
The committee observes Intersect's Membership Code of Conduct.
Much of the above information is proposed at this time and will be ratified by the first community TSC members.
In the current interim phase, under the stewardship of the the TSC holds a rolling agenda on the following;
