like to share with you a little bit of
the vision of the EI and how we are
working toward intersection and working
collaboratively with aetherium
Foundation and other organizations as
well moving forward just a little
background from where I spent 12 years
in in town and the telecom side of
things so it's very interesting in my
world and how it can how it addresses
the world of more of open-source so it's
been a learning experience to to figure
out how we how are you married the best
of both worlds and I think that's one of
the reasons why I think I was even
invited to take the the role of heading
up the EA is that we we we need to do
that we shouldn't try to reinvent the
wheel and so there's lots of benefits
from both aspects of looking at what's a
pure a purist version of open-source and
how does that work and how do you also
protect the the enterprise's of which we
we address and that's how we we started
I joined last January but as many of you
know the EA the initial date has gone jo
zuban told me was February 29th the
prior year and so so in any event it's a
very new organization but the intent was
okay we have the the open May net and
there there's a vision a purpose for it
but again what about the enterprise and
and we are leaving out the opportunity
for enterprises to do good in the world
as well as be profitable
so that's partially if the role of what
I believe that we should do and how we
work so so we formed and what we ended
up doing we took a look at initially the
EA was even thinking of writing code but
when you look at the organizations that
I am very familiar with our or standards
orgs that I'm familiar with and have
been actively engaged in the last 15 20
years such as the I Triple E and I don't
know if you're familiar with some of
these at sea and then 3gpp and the 3gpp
is a partner
project it's a it's a group it's not
even formal they write a spec there's no
code and then it goes to ed C which is
the European the version of a standards
or got it covers international and then
it gets rubber stamped and then it
becomes a global spec and the the the
end result and this is the the
philosophy that I'd really like to see
is that when you buy a if you buy
cellphone here in Prague and it's made
made in in Korea and and then you you
show up in Venezuela and you buy a SIM
card you expect that phone to work and
that deals it that that's all about
interoperability and global in are by
interoperability and that's the vision
that I'd like to see our world be and
and and the way to do it is to have a
standards org and so a standards or
doesn't write code we should never
compete with our members who do work and
then and then in order to enforce the
standards code you need some form of
certification and that's the reason why
all these phones work and where I come
from it's called NW IOT network
interoperability testing every one of
those operators by that phone they plug
it into their own network or they don't
sign off on it so we can't do all those
things because that's hardware but
there's things that we could do for
software and there's lots of ways you
guys Justin Lee he was came out an
entertainment gaming industry as a
product marketing manager there's a lot
that you can do to assure
interoperability so that's where that's
where I'm coming from that's where I've
got support from our board and the folks
in our world how do we do do that using
the EA so I've walked you through I'm
not going to go through all the slides
but you'll be able to get them so I
already share with you why standards are
really important because without that we
can't accomplish that goal in our org we
have a very good Board of Directors and
initially I was telling some of the guys
I don't want you to think great I know
it is all the biggest companies in the
world where are they and compared to the
smallest ones so but
and as you know in the world of
blockchain and the enterprise
I want the lowest hanging fruit our
financial services of course and there's
amber hi amber
so she helps start the quorum side of
things so at Quora so in any event that
was low-hanging fruit but it but if you
take a look at some of the folks on our
board Andrew Miller from the University
of Illinois and then so we try to have a
balanced approach and everybody gets one
vote no matter how big or small you are
and the organization since I started
we've doubled in size and I can share
with you the the argument that we make
is okay if you're looking for
interoperability if you're looking for
sure insan' die can tell you it's not
easy to convince the enterprise's to bet
down let alone understand what
blockchain is but to bet down and make a
commitment not easy and so that's our
story we use that we use what the EA is
about and it can help all of you even if
you're looking at where we're headed
which I would like to see us and when we
talk about the roadmap Inc enhance our
specification so we can do things to
help accelerate the adoption on the
public maenette because right now we're
not doing that but we want to so we have
500 members and we're growing
continually growing more and more and
the reason why is they do want the these
big these enterprises whether small or
large and particularly if they buy from
smaller companies and I'm an ex Intel
guy but I can tell you if we're
competing if Intel is competing and that
a very small company it's really hard
for the small company to get some
traction so being part of an
organization like in EA when you say
you're you're writing code that can form
CVA here it's certified they feel better
about taking the risk
we're diversified we're we have members
from all over the world with different
categories of business so we try the
bottom line is folks are joining us in
all all the different areas the way
we're organized we have a legal advisory
group we're not doing a tremendous
amount of legal work but we do try to
intersect
the technical spec work is bit headed by
Connor Svendsen he'll come up and talk
to you about a road map and our stack
and then we'll forming a certification
working group and actually now we're
going to form a global test net and that
global test and that means if you guys
are writing solutions based on
enterprise aetherium and you can use our
test net and that we have a goal of
getting that up and running we now have
a commitment from different companies
including Microsoft to help us do this
so we plan to implement that and then
you can actually have your customers
that they don't have to be a member of
the org and they can they can they can
use it and I'm just checking the time is
it tracking there or where is it the
track the time you're there keep me
posted okay so another another thing
that we do is we now have associate
member program so I don't know some of
you saw but we entered an agreement
hyper ledger and I was invited to
present and we did get an applause when
brian behlendorf and i know if he's here
it invited me but at the end of the day
I encourage the the folks who work on
fabric to develop a version that could
conform to the a spec and and since they
they're not a standards org there's a
very good synergy and we invite all
these other orgs and around me that
could be synergistic because there isn't
any one org that really solves all the
problems that you need for delivered
developing solutions for blockchain we
also are very involved with the the the
deaf organization some of the folks are
familiar with the organizations that do
social impact we we don't plan to deal
with and write solutions for identity
we'll partner with the w3c with deaf ID
2020 and come up with the solutions
Perce again we don't want to reinvent
the wheel and so how we operate we have
technical work technical working groups
we also have special interest groups and
so we have one for financial services
one for help and it's we're member
driven org we don't run the org the
members do so if anybody wanted to have
more visibility whatever you whatever
members want to see they join and they
raise their hands and they they can make
it happen so that that's how the org
works and that's how while standard
sword works so with that I wanted to
bring up Connor so I come out of the
world the telecom and telecom they have
it's called an OSI 7 layer stack we want
to formalize how work is done
technically so you can have multiple
vendors of choice and by the way this
stack you don't even need to take a
photo if you go to our website you don't
even I now you don't even have to say
who you are because you can just go to
our website and you can download our
stack and our spec everything and just
do whatever you want in developing
whatever you want and then if you want
to use our logo or go through our
certification process process then you
would we you would be asked to join
because of intellectual property
requirements etc but anybody here can
can download our spec and work on an
enterprise etherium so I'll turn it over
to Connor he's going to walk you through
and talk to you a bit about our
architecture stack thanks Ron hey
everyone so I'm the chair of the tech
spec working group but I'm also a guest
developer by background I wrote web 3j
the Java library for working with the
theorem and have my own blockchain
technology startup as well so I come at
this from a I guess they've perspective
ultimately the idea they with the
architecture stack as Ron said you know
I guess inspiration was the the eye size
seven layer model but really it was that
the first artifact that they produced
and put out there is a reference points
to try and capture everything that we're
thinking about with respect to the EA
the actual inspiration for the stack was
a talk that was done at Def Con last
year where one of the developers working
for the foundation did a talk on the
anatomy of an aetherium clients and one
of the really neat things that they did
there was they highlighted the
components in yellow that were aligned
with the yellow paper and
basically adopted that idea as well so I
thought it's a really neat way of you
know talking in terms of where these
things are formally specified in the
yellow paper then also those components
that are core to just general aetherium
and then we added on a piece which was
what we see as being answered more in
surprise focus pieces the key you always
would be EA has been about aetherium
technology and so we will always see the
initiatives that we're doing as being a
superset of what's happening in the
world of public aetherium and we never
want to sort of be separating ourselves
from it because you know many members of
the you know passionate about a theorem
technology that's why they joined up
that's what got me into it as well
because I came from an enterprise
background but then you know really
likely theory and technology and it
reminds me of the community reminds me
somewhat of the Linux community back in
the day and we all know how well that
panned out there as well but the the
stack I'm not going to go through all
the different layers about it now but I
think that the key point is is that
we're trying to just encompass you know
everything that we believe is in scope
there and she can do certainly review it
in your own time and go over to the
website to review it what I did want to
talk about though was the the
specifications that we've released this
week we released two new specifications
on this slide here we have organizations
that directly contributed to this these
specifications I think historically
there's been sort of a perception with
the EA that there was you know only a
few firms contributing to it but I think
what's really nice about this is it
shows that you know you've got a fairly
good cross-section of different
companies getting involved in the actual
specification work which i think is
really cool to see
and so this week the two specs that we
released one of them was the client
specification v2 and so we released v1
to coincide with the consensus coined s
conference in May of this year we're now
on a six month release cycle with the
specifications whereby every six months
that the next version will come out so
we'd envisage the next one will be
likely April next year all of the
development of these specifications now
is taking place on github we're
following similar sort of processes to
how the w3c specs are being developed so
people members of submitting issues and
pull requests with changes they get
approved by just different members
there's actually going to be a lot more
transparency as well very soon in that
we're going to be the actual repo is no
longer going to be private so people can
see exactly what's happening as the
specifications evolve but in terms of
the highlights just wanted to bring your
attention to a couple of them one of
them is that we've now in in the EA spec
we have a core set of JSON RPC a API
implementations from aetherium that you
need to implement to have an enterprise
aetherium clients we've also added some
additional ones
this.e which we use in EE a namespace
and this is mainly right now functions
around supporting the privacy models
that are specified by the EA so these
are your your quorum type approach to
privacy where you have a you know
transactions being stored off off chain
and but also there's some on chain
techniques as well that the likes of
Claire Maddox have been promoting with
their actual client implementation we
also reference the precompile contracts
as well so we list the eighth's
precompile contracts that are specified
in the yellow paper they're all now
referenced in the EA spec as being
mandatory requirements and the other
thing as well is that we've actually
provided a an API and for network
permissioning the you know the
government governance of private
permission networks is obviously a
you know it's a challenge and so we've
we've now included in our specification
an API for this based on work that some
members have contributed so it's you
know for us it's I think it's you know a
good move forward in that right now
there's not really any any
standardization around this just yet and
we've also added in a security
considerations section but that's more
based on just best practices around you
know security for these mission Jane's
the other big specification release was
the off chain trusted compute spec and
so this was mainly driven by Intel and I
exact but a number of different you know
contributors did get involved include
including Oracle ice and I think
consensus did some stuff but the point
is is it provides a JSON RPC based API
for vendors whereby they can achieve
well really really achieve a few
different things there one is use it for
Oracle type services another where they
just want to use a secure Enclave to do
some sort of computation or it could
just be doing some sort of computations
off chain in a again you know as a
secure environment but stuff that
wouldn't actually be easy to do
unchanged you to the performance
requirements so it's it's it's you know
for us we're really happy that it's made
it out there because you know this it's
a second spec we envisage that there
will be multiple specs appearing over
time but you know especially given that
you know it's ready in time for this
conference as well was you know happy to
have it out there and I'm really keen
for people to take a look and start
feeding back into it and so that was all
I was going to say here and I'll pass
back to Ron's talk about the road map
thank you so we we have a timetable for
road maps and we try to tie it to events
so it puts pressure on the folks doing
work and so that helps but so what we
our plan is to have a six-month as
Connor said a six-month cadence so we're
an open door anyone who wants to be
involved in yeah
can be a member and just to share with
you so you know it's $3,000 for a member
with a company that has 50 or less
employees so we try to make it
affordable we're a non-profit so the
money that comes in just pays for the
work that we do trying to support the
activities to get get the spec done
we're not not it's we're not a
profit-making venture and we don't make
a lot of money and what we get we get
approved by our board and then we spend
it on making sure our tests net will get
in place we have a test net we'll try to
promote to the whole world the benefits
of blockchain technology so so those are
the things some of the things we do and
and again we hire a folks to work on our
spec and as far as making sure it
conforms to the quality and caliber that
if we show our respect to a standards
org and there's they're called sto
standards development organs so we can
do marketing so the quality and caliber
of our spec has to be top-notch and
that's why our spec version is 4.5 is
0.5 for the trusted execution because
it's really our first one out so we're
not making it a formal spec yet compared
to the other work that we're doing so
every six six months we'll be coming out
with a new one we're done we're trying
to get to the point of you don't see the
test not there because I wasn't sure
that we'll have one until I get
commitments from members to say they're
gonna do it and now I just got those
commitments here at Def Con so we
absolutely this is this and and in order
to make that happen you need a common
consensus mechanism correct so that's
what we're working on so anyone who's
interested and and you could have a
reason not everybody's looking at
enterprise side things but we do want to
scale so our solutions can can support
all kinds of future aspects of what
maybe some of the things that you're
working on and and then we'll have so
we'll be you tire a next one time to
like the consensus 2000
eighteen event timeframe and then by
next Def Con we'll have released four
and then our plans to launch
certification you do certification
through independent labs so I want to
leave it just a couple minutes so we're
just about done I just shared with you
were really committed to social impact
part of the reason why I have this here
is that we're going to work hard to get
the enterprises to support and they
already do I've learned about it through
some board members but we we really want
to do a good job to help the south side
of social impact so with that said we
have just about five minutes for any
questions so there you go Connor you can
come up in case it's technical Thanks on
the roadmap is there going to be another
client implementation of quorum okay
that's that's a good question so
initially a quorum jump-started the work
that we did and but right now what we
I'd say there's about six months ago we
transition that there was a quorum
working group and Amber was completely
involved in she can tell you we
transitioned that and we did change the
name because we want the work it we want
this to be a collective so there isn't
anything at quorum quorums work
contribute to the technical spec that's
built into the spec that you'll download
and so there are multiple clients that
are all incorporated rolled into one
that should be have the level
interoperability is defined by what they
all agree upon that's required must have
so you have Claire Maddox you have block
apps you have the new Pantheon solution
all of those folks worked very closely
together so quorum quorum is a platform
or you can download the source code
write the quorum and but it'll the goal
is that and it is because the quorum
guys are very involved in our org
it'll conform to the a spec any other
questions
Alex sorry could you share Allah I know
that there was a couple sessions that we
had on interaction with like public
etherium could you just give a
high-level overview of what the outcomes
of those were yeah I'll I'll talk a
little bit about and where so we've had
multiple meetings with the folks from
public etherium and our goal is we we
should be very collegiate ly working
collaboratively together and we are and
and so we we we track the roadmap that
goes on and they therein foundation we
had some meetings where we talked about
like the EIP process and how the EAP
process should benefit we should be
mutually benefiting each other so we had
a two hour meeting that Connor actually
presented on in others and so we will
actually look at what we develop and if
we see things that can work on that yet
your and these yours or any of the VIPs
that make sense will do it and we were
also giving visibility to the folks in
the Theorem foundation to they can go
participate and see what we're doing
what's not on here and I'll just don't I
right now the work we're doing is
private permission networks I've talked
to our two folks in our org and
teammates we we want a roadmap to to
address public commercial networks that
use the etherium a net and so part of
what we're looking to do and I've talked
to a number of companies they too can
join us and contribute how do we how do
we bring that in and and so we're
leveraging there's so many opportunities
for the public may net that are
commercial and I could think of some
that I'd love to see like get rid of the
ticket scalpers a secondhand ticket
market I would pay money to have that
done so there your imagination could
just take you everywhere for what we
want to do because there's a lot of work
but you definitely need to create a spec
you need to get get it certified if
you're going to get like
Faiza or anybody else to say I'm going
to buy into it
they're gonna want to know that there's
500 companies behind it there's multiple
vendors that they can pick from any
other questions great thanks very much
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