# 5th Feb 25
## Attendees:
| Name | Attendance | Role | Voting Seat |
| ------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------------------- | ----------- |
| Kevin Hammond | Yes | TSC Chair (IOE) | Yes |
| Adam Dean | Yes | TSC Vice-Chair | Yes |
| Markus Gufler | Yes | TSC Member (Cardano Foundation) | Yes |
| Johnny Kelly | Yes | TSC Member | Yes |
| Ben Hart | Yes | TSC Member (MLabs) | Yes |
| Neil Davies | Yes | TSC Member (PN Solutions) | Yes |
| Nicholas Clark | Yes | TSC Member (Tweag Modus) | Yes |
| Duncan Soutar | Yes | TSC Secretary | No |
| Matt Davis | Yes | Intersect - Tech Ops Lead | No |
| Christian Taylor | Yes | Intersect - Opensource Head | No |
| Terence ‘Tex’ McCutcheon | Yes | OSC Secretary | No |
| Abbie Yeates | Yes | Intersect - Delivery Assurance | No |
| Ricky Rand | Yes | IOE General Manager | No |
| Lawrence Clarke | Yes | Intersect - Head of Core Services | No |
| Duncan Coutts | Yes | Welltyped -Technical Engineer | No |
## Agenda:
1. **Ouroboros Peras Investigation - Midway Checkpoint - Nick & Alex**
1. Providing an update of progress to date and identifying any risks or issues
**2. 2025 TSC Budget Request - Duncan & Lawrence**
**3. Update on Plomin HF - Kevin**
**4. Operation of Maintenance Contract - Neil / Abbie**
* deliverables review
* process for setting directions/agreeing additional work items with IOE
**5. Review Proposed Scope of PI Planning Session**
* Sharing of proposed scope
**6. Tender Submission Form - Matt**
* Template to be shared next week
**7.Calls to Tender: Proposal Review Body Outcomes - Kevin/Duncan**
* Update on proposals to be put forward to Tender: Leios, Peras, Midgard, Hydra & Revised Stakepool Incentive Scheme
**8. Cardano Node Emulator Maintenance - Nick**
* Need for a maintenance contract
* How to handle other maintenance activities
## Minutes & Actions:
| Topic | Discussion | Action Items |
| --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Ouroboros Peras Investigation | - Alexander Esgen presented a midway progress update on the Peras investigation, including details on vote and certificate diffusion, adversary impact, and potential reuse of votes for Mithril.
- Discussed the need for efficient vote and certificate diffusion mechanisms, potentially leveraging the decentralized message queue (SIP 137).
- Analyzed the impact of adversaries on the pre-alpha version of Peras and potential mitigations.
- Explored the possibility of reusing Peras votes for other purposes like Mithril.
| - Duncan Coutts to share Leios parameters with the Peras team.
- Technical workshop to be held in the 3rd week of March.
- Report due at the end of February.
- Open session to be held for community discussion.
|
| 2025 TSC Budget Request | - Lawrence Clark presented the 2025 TSC budget and discussed changes, including the generalization of certain costs to the CDH. \
- Reviewed the need for a TSC custodial wallet and an on-chain approval tool. \
- Addressed concerns about the level of detail in the budget, particularly for roadmap and non-roadmap items. \
- Discussed the impact of ADA spending on market price. | - Complete ROI on maintenance items.
- Complete roadmap items section with greater detail and breakdown of funds.
- Re-evaluate budget based on 9 months of spend (to cover until Q1 2026).
- Duncan and Kevin to reconcile budget discrepancies.
- Grant Ricky Rand access to the budget spreadsheet.
|
| Plomin Hard Fork | - Kevin provided a brief update on the Plomin Hard For and successful rollout | |
| Operation of Maintenance Contract | - Discussed the process for reviewing deliverables and setting directions for the maintenance contract with IOE. | - Neil and Abbie to define the process for reviewing deliverables and agreeing on additional work items with IOE. |
| PI Planning Session Scope | - Briefly discussed the proposed scope for the upcoming PI planning session. | - Share the proposed scope with the committee. |
| Tender Submission Form | - Discussed the need for a standardized tender submission form. | - Matt to share a tender submission template next week. |
| Calls to Tender | - Provided an update on proposals to be put forward for tender, including Leios, Peras, Midgard, Hydra, and a revised stakepool incentive scheme. | |
| Cardano Node Emulator Maintenance | - Discussed the need for a maintenance contract for the Cardano Node Emulator. | - Determine how to handle other maintenance activities related to the emulator. |
| Maintenance Contract Update | - Duncan provided a general update on the maintenance contract. | |
| IE Contract (IOG) | - Discussed the outstanding MSA and statement of work for the IOG contract. | - Ricky Rand to follow up on the MSA.
- Duncan to resend the contract to Ricky Rand.
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