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Introductions

Overview of existing draft project materials

• Vision
• Resources and value statement
• Roadmap

Working Groups (WGs) approval and planning

"Strawperson" proposal: three 10-member WGs

Question: how to populate WGs – personal contacts, email to those who filled out the Expression of Interest, broad call to arks-forum mailing list?

1. Technical WG
   
   1. Proposed short-term goals

      1. Planning work on the ARK IETF standardization process

      2. Consult with the ARK specification team

   2. Proposed longer-term goals

      1. Develop procedures for shared maintenance of the organizational (NAAN) registry

      2. Guiding the ARK specification through the IETF Informational RFC process

      3. Work with the Outreach Working Group to implement mechanisms to measure ARK usage

2. Outreach WG
   
   1. Proposed short-term goals

      1. Reviewing an ARK community survey draft created by Bibliothèque nationale de France

      2. Consult with the wider ARK community

      3. Developing a process to gather requirements, priorities and models for shared community and infrastructure management

   2. Proposed longer-term goals
      

      1. Launching an initiative to measure ARK usage world-wide

         1. Consider how to use this as a community outreach mechanism

         2. Make the survey/measurement repeatable so that watching long-term trends is possible

         3. Develop a dissemination plan

3. Fundraising WG
   
   1. Proposed short-term goals
      1. Developing a framework to fund priorities
   2. Proposed longer-term goals
      
      1. Pursuing funding with members of our community

AG meeting structure

• AG meeting frequency and time(s)
• AG chair

Potential topics for future meetings

• Assessment – how are we doing, what are we missing, what do we value
• Governance and sustainability
• AG structure: size, length of service, member replacement policy