Meeting Minutes August 06, 2025

Attendees:

Name	Attendance	Role	Voting Seat (Y/N)
Kevin Hammond	Yes	Chair	Y
Adam Dean	No	Vice Chair	Y
Terence ‘Tex’ McCutcheon	Yes	Secretary	N
Markus Gufler	No	Member/Seat	N
Nicolas Biri	No	Member/Seat	Y
Duncan Coutts	No	Member/Seat	Y
Jonathan Kelly	No	Member/Seat	Y
Sebastian Nagel	Yes	Member/Seat	Y
Benjamin Hart	Yes	Member/Seat	Y
Neil Davies	Yes	Member/Seat	Y
Alexander Moser	No	Member/Seat	Y

Community/Other Attendees

• Christian Taylor

• Jethro Adebisi

Recording: Technical Steering Committee - 2025/08/06 08:29 CDT - Recording

Transcript: Technical Steering Committee - 2025/08/06 08:29 CDT - Transcript

Chat Transcript: Technical Steering Committee - 2027/08/06 - Chat Transcript

Intros

Adam: OSC, TSC, CIP Editor, DripDropz LLC Alex: TBD Ben: TBD Duncan: TBD Johnny: Non-Custodial Co-Management SysOps Engineer (Tech Janitor) for 3 Mainnet Cardano SPO Clients. Keystone Ambassador. Voting Seat Member on Technical Steering Committee and Open Source Committee. Kevin: TBD Lorenzo: TBD Markus: TBD Neil: TSC, Network Params, PNSol Ltd Nicolas: TBD Sebastian: TBD Tex: Terence 'Tex' McCutcheon: Open Source Program Manager (Intersect), GMC/MCC/OSC Secretary, Committee Liaison

Agenda 8.06.25

• VRF tiebreaker carried forward

• Intersect repo creation policy and process

• Product Committee vision document

• Parameter Committee Update

• Security Council Update

Decisions/Actions

Decisions:

• The group decided to postpone the VRF tiebreaker discussion until the next meeting due to a lack of quorum.

• The review of the Product Committee vision document was also postponed.

• The group agreed to use a lazy consensus approach, utilizing reactions on the channel, to approve the tweet about the Plutus memory limits change.

• It was decided that a fire drill of the disaster recovery process would be executed on SanchoNet to test CIP 135.

Actions:

• Terence will continue to work on the GitHub backend for the new repo creation policy and is open to moving to an issue-based workflow in the future. He will also post the tweet about the Plutus memory limit increase.

• Kevin will engage with GovPool to raise awareness of the Plutus memory limit change proposal.

• The Communications team will be involved in the disaster recovery fire drill to manage public perception.

• Sebastian will continue to run the Layer 2 Working Group, and his team will handle the next meeting.

• Terence will check for new video uploads from the working groups and post them.

Topic	Discussion	Notes
Meeting Start and Attendance	The meeting was called to order with Kevin, Ben, and Neil present as voting members. Jethro and Terence from Intersect were also in attendance. Jethro joined as a community member, while Terence served as the secretary. It was noted that the meeting was not quorate due to the low number of voting members.	Attendance: Kevin, Ben, Neil, Jethro, Terence, Sebastian, Christian
Agenda Review	Kevin reviewed the agenda items: VRF tiebreaker, Intersect repo creation policy, product committee vision document, parameter committee update, and security council update. He stated that due to the lack of a quorum, the meeting would be brief and focus on any urgent issues.	The agenda was discussed, but no decisions could be made due to low attendance.
VRF Tiebreaker	The VRF tiebreaker was carried over from the last meeting. The group agreed a detailed technical discussion was needed and it would be best to postpone until Adam, who proposed the item, was present.	This topic was postponed to a future meeting with a larger group.
Intersect Repo Creation Policy	Terence provided an update on the new policy, stating that Intersect had restricted repo creation to staff members to control growth. They are using a form for project support, and he is working on the GitHub backend.	Ben and Neil suggested that using GitHub issues would be a more streamlined approach than a web form.
Community Involvement	The group discussed the extent of community involvement in the new policy. Neil suggested the community should be informed, but not necessarily consulted, to avoid unnecessary delays.	The TSC will be informed of new repo requests, and staff can bring an issue to the committee if needed.
Product Committee Vision Document	The group was reminded to review the latest version of the 2030 vision document from Sam.	The item was briefly mentioned and postponed until the next meeting.
Parameter Committee Update	Kevin updated the group on proposed changes to Plutus memory limits. The Plutus team is planning a 25% increase, to be rolled out in two stages to avoid tripping a guardrail. A three-month notice period is required for any governance-critical parameter changes.	The group discussed the motivations and implications of this change, including performance impacts and the use of the "golden machine" for benchmarking.
Security Council Update	Kevin announced that the Security Council would meet next week. He discussed plans to conduct a fire drill of the disaster recovery process on SanchoNet to test SIP 135 and train SBOs.	Two scenarios for the fire drill were proposed: a network stall due to a lack of blocks and a bad block being injected.
Layer 2 Working Group	Sebastian updated the group on the Layer 2 working group, noting recent discussions about interoperability, particularly for payments. The next meeting will be hosted by others while Sebastian is away.	The working group's progress was noted. The idea of tweeting about its activities to inform the community was also raised.
Meeting Close	With no other topics to cover and the main items postponed, Kevin ended the meeting.	The meeting adjourned with the plan to reconvene when everyone returned from their travels.