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New work Item Process

The content below outlines the process under which a new working group item is established and the ongoing expectations of work item owners.

Creating a new work item

  1. Ensure that you have completed the DIF IPR process. You must have at least two co-owners from different organizations for your work item to be considered.
  2. Fork this repository to your GitHub account and clone the fork to your local machine.
  3. In the project directory on your local machine, copy templates/work_item.md into lowercase snakecase "short name" for your work item in work_items/. For example, cp templates/work_item.md work_items/credential_revocation.md. Add your work item to the list of active work items in work_items/README.md.
  4. Populate your work item by completing all the sections in the template, including answering all the questions.
  5. Commit your changes locally and push to your GitHub account's fork of this repository.
  6. Create a Pull Request against the parent repository including your local changes. The proposed work item will then be discussed at the next available WG meeting where adopting the work item will be voted upon. Your item co-owners must express in the Pull Request via GitHub comment that they accept the responsbilities of work item ownership.
  7. Upon approval via merging, begin an email thread with the chairs or discuss asynchronously if you require any administrative resources from DIF, such as a regularly scheduled Zoom meeting link, inclusion on the DIF calendar, a location to store notes and recordings, or any other help facilitating your work item.

Work item ownership responsibilities

As a work item owner, you will have the following responsibilities:

  • Timely response to questions and status check-ins about the work item by the chairs and other DIF members.
  • Commitment to designating and sending a work item representative for all Applied Crypto WG bi-weekly meetings who can speak on the status of the work item and summary of events
  • Commitment to timelines and scope of deliverables and/or meetings, and being proactive in communications to the chairs and the group upon any changes to these. Changes to the work item are made and approved in the same Pull Request process described above, except the PR should contain changes to the work item markdown file instead of adding a new one.
  • If the work item is intended to become a standards proposal at an external standards organization, identify the key people in the external organization, establish and maintain a relationship with them and be proactive liaison between this working group and the external standards body.