(2/9/24) Meeting Minutes

Sept 2, 2024

Attendees:

• Reza Baram

• Trym Bruset

• Santiago Carmuega

• Eystein Magnus Hansen

• Benjamin Hart

• Hwang Huongket

• Alex Karpov

• Stefano Leone

• Fergie Miller

• Ricky Rand

• Duncan Soutar

• Marcin Szamotulski

• Giorgio Zinetti

Agenda

Discussion Points	Notes/Action Items	Actions: Responsible/None
Introduction & Quorum	Quorum achieved
Approve the Agenda	Agenda approved
Minutes, Online Votes, & Publishing Updates	Minutes approved
Review 90-day milestone plan - Leonard	Milestones reviewed
Announcement: AMA on special interest groups - Hwang	Core Infrastructure Working Group organizing an AMA on Special Interest Groups Four SIGs created: Interoperability, Stakeholder Operators, DeFi DApps, and Scalability AMA scheduled for Wednesday to answer questions about joining and purpose of SIGs	Sam Leathers and Ben Hart to attend as key speaker
Communication barriers - Eyestein	Eystein presented ideas to improve SIG communication Suggestions include grouping technical and non-technical SIGs Recommendations for asynchronous communication: Discord forums, structured threads Proposed creating scheduled talks, rewarding attendance, and GitHub integration Plan to work on proposal for next week or following week	Eystein to continue work on proposal for lowering communication barriers in SIGs for next week's meeting
Quorum Floor - Ben	Motion to set minimum quorum at three members; on top of existing quorum criteria based on participant attendance for past 3 CIR-WG workshops. Motion carried after vote
Proposed Item Review - Duncan	Mithril Protocol Presentation Reza presented on Mithril protocol's current state and future work Mithril is a stake-based multi-signature scheme for certified snapshots and proofs Protocol functionality is good, but lacks in decentralization and sustainability Work needed: decentralization changes, incentive model, and using Cardano network layer Discussion on integration with Cardano node and potential applications Marcin explained proposal for separate process using Cardano network stack Team size for Mithril agreed on five developer-years as estimated effort Mithril work item accepted as triaged	Reza and Marcin to follow up and discuss the split between Mithril and network team responsibilities
Committee Elections Update - Hwang	Committee elections coming up next week 50% of seats up for community elections in October Volunteers requested for seats in upcoming elections	Hwang to share list of volunteers with Karen
New Business	Duncan Soutar provides update on IOR research proposal for next week’s review. Discussion to be confirmed over whether research will go through CIR-WG.