Discussion groups for working on the FDC3 2.0 scope

[kriswest]

The next release of the FDC3 standard is intended to be the second major release (2.0) and hence provides an opportunity to make significant additions to the standard and the first opportunity to make breaking changes. Any such changes should be made with care and consideration to users of the standard and will benefit from input from as many stakeholders as possible.

However, the Standards Working Group meetings are only held once a month, offering only limited scope for collaboration. Hence, the creation of one or more 'Discussion Groups'¹ has been proposed, to provide more opportunities for direct collaboration on issues and PRs for inclusion in the FDC3 2.0 scope.

A Discussion Group has no direct decision-making power regarding the FDC3 standard - rather it is intended that anything they propose or work on will result in proposals (via Github issues and PRs) for the Standards Working Group participants to consider and vote on for inclusion in the standard. As such, participation in a Discussion group is not required for contributing to any particular issue or FDC 2.0 as a whole.

A discussion group will be represented by an issue in the FDC3 github repository, to be used to arrange meetings and/or exchange messages that don't belong to a particular issue. Any meetings arranged will be organized via the FINOS webex account and should be open to anyone that is able to participate in the Standards Working Group meetings.

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¹: Originally proposed as a 'Special Interest Group', however that term has a particular meaning to FINOS, hence, we decided to go with 'Discussion group instead to better represent the scope of the group..

[kriswest]

A discussion group has been proposed to cover issues relating to Channels, Feeds & Transactions

See #399 for details.

[kriswest]

A discussion group has been proposed to work on proposing Context Data types and Intents for addition to the standard + refining their specifications.

See #490 for details

[kriswest]

A discussion group has been convened to work on proposals for Desktop Agent bridging: allowing multiple desktop agents running on a desktop or desktops (belonging to the same user) to connect to each other and share context.

See #523 for details

[kriswest]

A discussion group has been convened to work on changes to the App Directory.

See #573 for details