Difference between revisions of "Board-Meeting-2023-02-16"

board members: Matthew, Peter, Ralph

 

regrets: Edward

 

other folks: Daniel Gultsch

- follow up on FOSDEM conversations (e.g., with Stuart)

- opportunity to play a role on interoperability

- EU legislation on the way

- we haven't been at the table to participate in these discussions

- upcoming interoperability workshop in Brussels

- https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/dma/dma-workshops/interoperability-workshop_en

- https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2023-02/20230227_dma_interoperability_workshop_agenda.pdf

- Ralph will attend (only one representative per organization)

- it should be relatively easy for us to raise funds to work on this

- if we formulate a good plan

- might be a challenge if that money flows through the XSF

- best could be if XSF functions as a fiscal host

- we need to figure out what we want to achieve

- this first workshop could be a good way to test the waters

- agree that we don't want to become a large organization with much money

- the fiscal hosting could be a good framework

- yes, putting together a plan is the first step

- let's figure out the opportunities and what resources are needed (also the timeframe)

- this workshop at the end of February seems like a good place to start

- supposedly EU expects to enforcing interoperability by 2025

- definitely a reaction to the DMA

- but framed in a more neutral manner

- the gatekeepers might never adopt it

- and they're not involved in the WG

- it's not necessarily the case that MIMI will 100% succeed or 100% fail

- three layers:

  - transport

  - encryption

  - content

- a document about XMPP as transport layer could help in the MIMI effort

- one challenge is e2e encryption

- if we have an MLS profile in XMPP, would that solve the problem?

- not really, because there are MLS parameters and they differ across systems

- XMPP MLS profile would help

- content layer is all being designed from scratch

- what is the delta between what we have and what the requirements are?

- we can do a better job of this

- perhaps an initiative to create this

- representatives from Cisco, META, Mozilla, etc.

- AI: Peter to reach out to likely attendees

- transport (and perhaps encryption and content) draft for MIMI

- MLS profile for XMPP (there's already activity here by people Matthew mentions)

- roadmap for EU interop

- XSF should be more active here