Dear SDS Community member,

First of all, thank you for the meeting last week. As always, you can find the recordings of the meetings here:  https://dif.groups.io/g/sds-wg/wiki/home 

Please do not forget to nominate chairs and editors before the next meeting on Thursday 16th by sending the nominee's name(s) to balazs@.... 

Next steps for IPR protected work

DIF's Steering Committee approved the charter and formally established the SDS Working Group end of last week. 

All companies who want to contribute to the specification have to sign a Contributor participation agreement (free, limited to SDS WG) or join DIF as Associate members (all DIF WGs). 

Steps for existing DIF members:

1. Sign up for the Secure Data Storage Working Group using this form and finalize the membership by completing the automated DocuSign process.

Steps for other community members: 

1. Sign up for Contributor participation at DIF using this form and finalize the membership by completing the automated DocuSign process.

2. Sign up for the Secure Data Storage Working Group using this form and finalize the membership by completing the automated DocuSign process.

All DocuSign signatures must be done by legal representative of the organization.

Individuals (not affiliated with an organization) who wish to contribute, please reach out to balazs@...

Additional note:

DIF uses two documents to establish a Working Group:

• A WG Charter is the legal document for participation

• An Operating Addendum that describes additional principles and processes

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Balázs Némethi

Operations @ DIF

Dear all,

The Secure Data Storage community hosted its first IPR protected call, marking the start of the work we waited for. Thank you for everyone who joins the calls and pushes this WG to get here! 

The work starts here.

It also means that we will enforce IPR protection from now on both during the calls and on the mailing list (the use of corporate email addresses on the mailing list, if available, is necessary). 

In case you or your organization has not yet officially joined the Working Group, please reach out to me, and I will assist you with the documentation. 

The voting for the Chairs and the Editors of the WG are open until the 24th April (until the next meeting), please cast your votes. 

Also, there was a request to read up on the Working Group the related documents to have the necessary foundation for the meetings to come on discussing the avenues of work consolidation. 

• Identity Hubs
• Encrypted Data Vaults

The Wiki managed on groups.io has all relevant links,

and the WG now also has a page on the foundation's site that will be kept updated.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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Balázs Némethi

Operations @ DIF