Open Standards & Interoperability
Campaign Brief
Open standards built on the principles of openness, transparency and consensus lay the grounds for innovation, growth and fair competition. Open standards are not synonymous of open source. [OPSTD]
We look at Open Source as the best way to enable interoperability between different technologies and applications. But in the Cardano Ecosystem we have a set of open source projects that have no standards for basic cross-project integration. For instance, there are no standards on how to document, set-up, and contribute-to projects. Moreover, there is no common infrastructure that the projects can use to track issues, and publish basic public information about the projects funded by the community.
We are of the advise that we need a set of standards, processes, and infrastructures to be used by the Cardano open source projects, such that (1) The teams of different O.S. projects can easily collaborate; (2) New-joiners can easily discover, understand, test, and contribute to existing O.S. projects; (3) Cardano O.S. projects can access a pool of basic infrastructures and tools that are needed.
Motivation
As mentioned by Charles Hoskinson "Cardano code is Open Source, but needs to be managed like a true open source project, like Linux and other O.S. projects".
In order to proceed in this direction, we need to use Catalyst as a governance over a true, vendor-neutral open source and open-standards ecosystem. To achieve that, we are missing processes (e.g. how the project teams should behave and participate in the ecosystem), and infrastructures (e.g. VCS, CMS, Wiki, Forum, etc.)
Guiding questions:
- How can we guide the growth of a vendor neutral ecosystem?
- How can we build a common identity and increase awareness on Cardano projects?
- How can we increase the discoverability and the commercial adoption of our projects?
- How can we increase the degree of collaboration across different projects?
- How can we lower the barriers and increase open participation to our ecosystem?
- How can we provide equal opportunities to all projects no matter the size?
Possible directions:
- Incentivize collaboration across projects to solve complex problems
- Introduce common standards and processes and incentivize their adoption across projects
- Provide cross-project infrastructures and tools needed to co-ordinate
- Ensure the existence of a cohesive knowledge base
- Support a network of professional technology ambassadors
Note
This challenge builds on top of the existing F7 Open Source Developer Ecosystem and is loosely related to F8 Open Source Development Ecosystem
Indeed, this challenge is about establishing standards, processes, and fostering interoperability across O.S. projects, while the "Open Source" challenges are more focused on growing the O.S. ecosystem by seed-funding open source projects for future challenges.
Shortly said: This challenge is about opennes, standardization, and interoperability across open source projects funded by the community, while the "open source" one is about increasing the number/quality of projects.
References
[OPSTD] Almeida, Fernando & José, Oliveira & José, Cruz. (2011). Open Standards And Open Source: Enabling Interoperability. International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications. 2. 10.5121/ijsea.2011.2101.
Why is it important?
To deliver complex software, driving collaboration, and accelerating innovation by sharing identity, practices, and sw components/services.
What does success look like?
- A vendor-neutral ecosystem to
- drive growth, awareness, discoverability
- increase commercial adoption
- provide needed infrastructures
Key Metrics to measure
Open standards adoption should increase among cardano projects. On the long term, all of the community-funded projects should be open and transparent by following common standards.
There should be observable improvements: easier to discover projects and find project resources, more intuitive to access project knowledge base (documentation, how-to, etc.), and simple to find and contact project members.
It should be possible to have project synergies by allowing simple inter-project communication, knowledge sharing, and re-use of existing components/services.
We should observe an increase in open-source contributions to different projects: both from new joiners and from other people already in the Cardano community
We should observe an increase in reputability of the Cardano Open Source projects. The measure can be done by looking at media communications of various open source communities.
Tenant Profile
Solution: A standard that allows for compatibility matching between tenants, and tenant(s) to housing units.
Sustainable Business Standards
Solution: Build a decentralised sustainable business model to provide real world solutions to climate issues/food shortage connecting Cardano projects
Standard for verification of NFTs
Solution: カルダノNFTの価値を生み出すための標準とリソースを探求し確立するための、協調的で整合のとれたアプローチとプロセス。
Sign-in with Cardano
Solution: The full spec and implementation of a Sign-in with Cardano (front-end and back-end), just like there is already a Sign-in with Ethereum.
Research Guild: Ecosystem Report
Solution: リサーチギルドは、カルダノ上でオープンで相乗効果のあるエコシステムを成長させるための戦略を調査するためのフィージビリティスタディを提供します。
PRISM VC Schema/Cred Definition
Solution: PRISMスキーマの標準表現とVC定義をオープンソースツールで作成し、標準を検証し、ブロックチェーンに格納する方法を定義する。
Ouroboros-mini query specification
Solution: Document the query specification so that people can implement their new clients
Open Standards & Design Patterns
Solution: Work with existing projects on defining problem spaces and different components that make up solutions to promote interoperability
Open Source Fungify
Solution: Open source Fungify, a complete and advanced dApp, to make several complex contracts available for anyone to use as a launchpad.
Open ISPO
Solution: Our Open ISPO is going to foster small pools growth and enable projects to distribute their tokens in the smart ways
Open Certification and Traceability
Solution: Open source industrial NFTs standards and verification tools for track and trace and certification of real world assets such food and drugs
NFT-Guild: NFT Royalty Standards
Solution: A collaborative process and an aligned approach to explore and establish standards and resources for Cardano NFTs.
NFT as an event ticket
Solution: NFTイベント ノーコネクトTXで認証。人は身近なものを好みます。また、イベントも好きです。NFTをチケットの主流にしよう
Metadata Dictionary
Solution: Develop a metadata registry for standardized B2B transactions to serve as the basis for organization's accounting and business activities.
Mentorship Incentivization DAO
Solution: Incentivizing mentors with native tokens and NFTs and gaining credibility for delivering extraordinary mentorship experience-Mentorship DAO.
Marlowe for Financial Markets
Solution: 金融市場のトレーダーやDeFiのための専用コミュニティで、間もなく開始されるMarloweのフル実装とパイオニアプログラムを後押しする。
Make learn Cardano easier
Solution: Build model website like Wiki.Where Cardano enthusiasts create and organize topics, content in a way they think is easiest to see,understand
Ideation Protocol Work Group
Solution: Undertake a series of summits with projects working on ideation to agree on protocol level implementations.
DYOR Tool
Solution: A community-curated tool that teaches people how to research a token or NFT, utilizing a consistent set of criteria.
DLT360: Technology RADAR Team
Solution: We will add latest research regarding technology, investigate open standards and interoperability perspective, summarise & report quarterly
DLT360: Governance RADAR Team
Solution: 複雑なオープンソースプロジェクトを成功させるためには、ガバナンスが重要です。DLT360のチームは、四半期ごとにレビュー、文献調査、要約、報告を行っています。
Community collaboration standards
Solution: A purpose driven community to build common standards, processes, and tools to increase synergies across projects.
Community and Content Accessibilty
Solution: Reward users for engaging using a unique smart contract system "engage to earn" created by Checkpoint
Codesign blockchain4good Principles
Solution: Cardano stakeholders involved as core co-designers of an unprecedented open access, blockchain agnostic, Blockchain for Good Principles