Secure Data Storage WG Agenda - Thu Oct 1, 2020

Current Spec

Issues

Agenda

1. IPR Reminder

2. Introductions and Re-Introductions

3. Special Guest: Eve Maler presenting UMA User Managed Access 15+ min presentation and then Q&A

4. Last 15 mins: WG and Spec Naming Discussion!

* Goal: Finalize names by IIW

* 3 week process: Week 1) Generate list of names,

Week 2) Debating "hard no"s/deal breaker names,

Week 3) Community ranked-choice voting

* To start us off: see the last several comments on issue #35

Attendees:

Michael Shea
Dave Longley
Dmitri Zagidulin
Robbie Jones
Orie Steele
Kaliya Young
Juan Caballero
David Mason
Daniel Buchner
Andreas Freund
Adrian Gropper
Dmitri Zagidulin
David Mason
Manu Sporny
Jonathan Holt
Benjamin Goering

Exploratory Names

Exploratory properties of good name choices:

* Short

* No collisions

* Should not snark/pun on existing similar solutions (like Solid Pods, for example)

* Should not make people think "This already exists; Google Drive / Dropbox"

* bengo: e.g. "encrypted"? +1 -- manu

* Should not suggest that this is more secure or decentralized than it really is.

* bengo: As CCG has discussed, there are many definitions of 'decentralized', and there is usually a better choice of words.

* bengo: Im new to the spec, but I was under the impression it would be possible to implement SDS in a very traditional/centralized architecture, while also enabling some new ones.

Exploratory properties of names that may not be important:

* globally unique

* resolvable

* works with posix tools for resolving names. A valid name could be 'enrypted.data', `whois encrypted.data`

* name is syntax-compatible with other standards

* decision reached via [Formal Consensus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_consensus)

* bengo: I believe it's probably possible to make this decision via [this protocol][1], but not desirable if fielding concerns takes more than x weeks (x=4?). Mitigation: if consensus takes longer than y weeks, group could vote on a resolution to bound the debate to z weeks.

[1]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/c-t-butler-and-amy-rothstein-on-conflict-and-consensus-a-handbook-on-formal-consensus-decisionm "Formal Consensus"

Lower-level, storage-focused names:

* Decentralized Encrypted Storage

* Decentralized Encrypted Vault

* Secure Data Vault

* Encrypted Storage Vault

* Vault Data Store

* Decentralized Data Vault

* Decentralized Vault Store

* Secure Data Share

* Encrypted Data Vault

* Secure Resource Server

* Ookie Pookie-