Hyperledger Project CharterThe Hyperledger Project is a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the way business transactions are conducted globally. The Project is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project and implements many open source best practices familiar to other leading projects.The Linux FoundationTLF_9c1196be-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679HLP MembersMembership.
a. HLP shall be composed of Premier, General and Associate Members. All Premier and General Members must be current corporate members of The Linux Foundation (at any level) to participate in HLP as a member. Anyone may propose a contribution to HLP’s technical codebase regardless of membership status. All participants in HLP, including Associate Members, enjoy the privileges and undertake the obligations described in this Hyperledger Project Charter, as from time to time amended by the Governing Board with the approval of The Linux Foundation ("LF"). During the term of their membership, all members will comply with all such policies as the LF Board of Directors and/or the HLP may from time to time adopt with notice to members...
e. Premier Members, General Members and Associate Members shall be entitled to:
i. participate in Project general meetings, initiatives, events and any other activities; and
ii. identify themselves as members of, or participants in, HLP.HLP Associate Membersb. The Associate Member category of membership is limited to non-profits and open source projects, and requires approval by the Governing Board of HLP (“Governing Board”), or, if the Governing Board sets criteria for joining as an Associate Member, the meeting of such criteria. If the Associate Member is a membership organization, Associate Membership in HLP does not confer any benefits or rights to the members of the Associate Member.HLP Premier Membersc. Premier Members shall be entitled to appoint a representative to the Governing Board, the Marketing Committee and any other committees established by the Governing Board.AccentureCME GroupDeutsche BoerseDigital Asset HoldingsDTCCFujitsuHitachiIBMIntelJP Morgan ChaseR3HLP General Membersd. General Members shall be entitled to annually elect one representative to the Governing Board for every ten (10) General Members, up to a maximum of two (2) representatives, provided that there shall always be at least one (1) General Member representative, even if there are less than ten (10) General Members. The election process shall be determined by the Governing Board.ABN AMROANZBlockchainBNY MellonCalastoneCiscoCLSConsenSysCreditsGuardtimeIntellect EUNECNTT DATARed HatState StreetSWIFTSymbiontVMwareWells FargoHLP Governing Boarda. Composition – the Governing Board voting members shall consist of:
i. Up to sixteen (16) Premier Members with one representative appointed by each Premier Member;
ii. elected General Member representative(s) per Section 2.d.;
iii. one representative elected by the End User Technical Advisory Board, as defined in Section 6 below; and
iv. the Chair elected by the TSC, as defined in Section 4 below.Blythe MastersBlythe Masters is CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, a company that builds distributed, encrypted straight through processing tools to improve efficiency, security, compliance and settlement speed. Blythe was previously a senior executive at J.P. Morgan, which she left in 2014 after a career spanning 27 years, following the successful sale of the bank’s physical commodities business which she built. Named J.P. Morgan's head of Global Commodities in 2007, Blythe was responsible for building an integrated physical and financial commodity business, including market-making, structuring, risk management, financing and warehousing capabilities across the full spectrum of commodity asset classes. From 2012, in addition to Global Commodities, she was responsible for the Corporate & Investment Bank's Regulatory Affairs overseeing strategies to address the range of complex regulatory changes. She was a member of the J.P. Morgan Corporate & Investment Bank Operating Committee and previously the firm's Executive Committee. From 2004 to 2007, she was Chief Financial Officer of the Investment Bank. Prior to that role, she was J.P. Morgan's head of Global Credit Portfolio and Credit Policy and Strategy. Earlier positions at J.P. Morgan include head of North American Structured Credit Products, co-head of Asset Backed Securitization and head of Global Credit Derivatives Marketing. From 2012 to 2014, Blythe was chair of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). From 2008-2010 she was chair of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). Blythe is the chair of the board of Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the Global Fund for Women.Chris Ferris(TSC Chair)
Christopher is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Open Technology in the IBM Cloud organization. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 36+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has overall technical responsibility for all of IBM's strategic open technology initiatives, including OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Hyperledger Project, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Mesos, Node.js and Docker and more.Dave TreatDave is the global head of Accenture’s Capital Markets Blockchain practice and serves as a client account lead for several leading financial services institutions. He has over 18 years of experience in Financial Services split between consulting and industry roles. The early part of his career was primarily focused on retail banking, and cards and in the past decade he has focused on capital markets. Dave has experience and expertise in running strategy functions, innovation, strategic cost management, large-scale restructuring, customer relationship management, M&A, outsourcing & offshoring and process excellence.Dirk HohndelDirk has been an active developer and contributor in Linux and open source for nearly 25 years. He was one of the early Linux kernel developers, a long time contributor and maintainer of XFree86, and has contributed to several dozen open source projects over the years. Dirk joined Intel in 2001 and currently works in the Software and Services Group, focusing on the technology direction of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. He guides Intel’s engagements in open source and is an active participant in many open source projects and organizations, various program committees and advisory boards. Before joining Intel, among other roles, he worked as Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and Unix Architect of Deutsche Bank. Dirk holds a Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Würzburg, Germany. He lives in Portland, OR.Jerry CuomoKireeti ReddyKireeti Reddy is Executive Director, Software Engineering at CME Group, leading CME Technology Labs team, focusing on accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies in delivering customer value. Starting his career in financial industry with development of electronic trading platform supporting the launch of E-mini S&P on CME Group Globex platform, Kireeti spent most of his career in managing and developing low latency trading platforms leveraging industry standards like FIX protocol. During his tenure at CME, Kireeti also worked on order routing implementations connecting Globex platform with multiple global partner exchanges. Prior to CME Group, he also developed software solutions enabling trading firms implement end-to-end algorithmic trading applications in Matlab.
Kireeti holds an Engineering undergrad, MS in Management Studies from Indian Institute of Science and MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.Robert PalatnickRobert Palatnick is Managing Director and the Chief Technology Architect, with global responsibility for IT strategy, architecture, standards and engineering design of the platforms, systems and applications underlying DTCC’s broad range of products and services.
Palatnick previously served as a Domain Lead in the Application Development division of IT and was Chief Administrative Officer of Information Technology from 2003 to 2007. Palatnick joined Government Securities Clearing Corporation (GSCC), a DTCC subsidiary, in 1993 as Vice President, Information Technology. He became Managing Director and Chief Information Officer of DTCC subsidiaries GSCC (1996), Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation (2000) and Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (2003). Prior to that, Palatnick was Vice President, Development and Systems, at Security Pacific Corporation Sequor Software Services.
Palatnick received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Buffalo, and is an alumnus of the David Rockefeller fellowship.Santiago SuarezStefan TeisTodd McDonaldTodd McDonald
Todd is a Co-Founder and COO at R3, which leads a consortium of over 40 of the world’s largest banks focused on the application of shared ledger technologies to global financial markets. Todd previously spent 14 years at Standard Chartered Bank in financial markets trading and management, where he held the roles of Global Head of eFX Trading and Managing Director, Head of FX Americas. Todd also served for four years on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Chief Dealers Working Group. Todd received a BA from Colgate University and currently resides in the New York City area.Toshiya ChoYoshinobu SawanoYoshinobu Sawano is in charge of leading the FUJITSU Fintech business as a manager at FUJITSU Laboratories of America, Inc at Silicon Valley since April 2016. In his last role at FUJITSU GHQ, he was planning and developing the product/service in Financial Service Industry globally.HLP Technical Steering Committee (TSC)a. Composition
i. Startup Period: During the first six (6) months after project launch, the TSC voting members shall consist of one (1) appointed representative from each Premier Member and each Top Level Project Maintainer, provided that no company (including related companies or affiliates under common control) shall have more than three (3) votes on the TSC.
ii. Steady State: After the Startup Period, there shall be a nomination and election period for electing Contributors or Maintainers to the TSC. The TSC voting members shall consist of eleven (11) elected Contributors or Maintainers chosen by the Active Contributors. An Active Contributor is defined as any Contributor who has had a contribution accepted into the codebase during the prior twelve (12) months. The TSC shall approve the process and timing for nominations and elections held on an annual basis.
b. TSC projects generally will involve Maintainers and Contributors ...
c. Participation in HLP through becoming a Contributor and/or Maintainer is open to anyone. The TSC may:
i. establish work flows and procedures for the submission, approval and closure or archiving of projects,
ii. establish criteria and processes for the promotion of Contributors to Maintainer status, and
iii. amend, adjust and refine the roles of Contributors and Maintainers listed in Section 4.b., create new roles and publicly document responsibilities and expectations for such roles, as it sees fit.Chris Ferris(TSC Chair)
Christopher is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Open Technology in the IBM Cloud organization. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 36+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards and open source development since 1999. He has overall technical responsibility for all of IBM's strategic open technology initiatives, including OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Hyperledger Project, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Mesos, Node.js and Docker and more. David VoellEmmanuel VialeEmmanuel Viale is the Managing Director of the European Accenture Technology Labs in Sophia Antipolis, South of France. He leads the R&D activities of the European Labs node with a particular focus on identifying and delivering applications of innovative and emerging technologies for the various Financial Services industries: Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets. Emmanuel has a particular focus on Blockchain technologies, covering payments, transactions, security and broader IoT-related applications of this technology area. He is leading the global Technology R&D for Accenture around blockchain. Emmanuel holds a degree in Signal Processing and Computer Science from the Ecole Centrale de Marseille, France, and lives in the South of France.Hart MontgomeryHart Montgomery received his B.S.E. from Princeton in 2008 and completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford in 2014, during which he was awarded a Stanford Graduate Fellowship. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories of America in 2015. His current research interests are spread throughout general cryptography, with a current focus on cryptocurrency and applicable cryptographic techniques, lattice-based cryptography, and cryptographic primitives.Mic BowmanMic Bowman is a principal engineer in Intel Labs and leads the distributed ledger research group. Mic has spent over 20 years working on large-scale databases and distributed systems. He is currently working on methods for improving the security, scalability, and privacy of distributed ledgers. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Arizona.Pardha VishnumolakalaRichard G. BrownRichard Brown is Head of Technology for R3, a partnership of global banks designing and delivering advanced shared ledger technologies to global financial markets. Formerly Executive Architect for Banking Innovation at IBM, he is a leading authority on this technology and maintains a widely-read blog on the topic (http://gendal.me). He co-authored the IBM Academy of Technology's first paper on bitcoin and his writings have been cited by the Financial Times, the Bank of England and multiple influential reports. His fifteen-year career at IBM encompassed a variety of architecture and consulting roles, specializing in the application of new technology in banking and financial markets. He is an advisor to several FinTech startups.Satoshi OshimaSatoshi Oshima is senior researcher of R&D group and a member of Open Source Technology Lab. in Hitachi. He also is a leader of Linux Technology Center in Hitachi R&D group. He becomes a leader of blockchain and distributed ledger technology research team. He has a particular focus on applying distributed ledger to supply chain management, enterprise asset management or other industrial systems.Stanislav LibermanStan is a Director of Software Engineering in CME Technology Labs at CME Group. He came to financial industry from telecom where he worked on a variety of software solutions. During his tenure with CME Stan led matching engine support team, established many targeted exploratory projects, architected and developed a variety of high performance systems. In his role with CME Technology Labs, Stan is a lead on several distributed ledger initiatives. He holds multiple patents in trade matching engine domain.Stefan TeisTamás BlummerTamás is the Chief Ledger Architect at Digital Asset. Prior to Digital Asset, Tamás served for over a decade as a VP at Deutsche Bank where he ran the IT systems for global fixed income processing, VP at MSCI, and as Executive Director at Morgan Stanley. He was the founder and CEO of Bits of Proof, a firm which constructed an enterprise grade Bitcoin blockchain server deployed by the payment processor BopShop, the backend for myTREZOR which was the first hardware Bitcoin wallet, and Bullion Bitcoin, the first real-time auditable exchange for institutional investors. Tamás also built the Bitcoin mining control software at CoinTerra.HLP Contributorsi. Contributors: anyone in the technical community that contributes code, documentation or other technical artifacts to the HLP codebase.HLP Maintainersii. Maintainers: Contributors who have the ability to commit code and contributions to a project's main branch on an HLP project. A Contributor may become a Maintainer by a majority approval of the existing Maintainers.HLP TSC Chaird. The TSC shall elect a TSC Chair, who will also serve as a voting member of the Governing Board, and is expected to act as a liaison between the Governing Board and technical leadership of HLP.HLP Marketing Committeea. Composition: the Marketing Committee shall consist of:
i. one appointed voting representative from each Premier Member;
ii. non-voting representative(s), appointed by members of any other class of membership; and
iii. any non-voting Maintainer appointed by the TSC.
b. Responsibilities: The Marketing Committee shall be responsible for designing, developing and executing marketing efforts on behalf of the Governing Board. The Marketing Committee is expected to coordinate closely with the Governing Board, End User and technical communities to maximize the outreach and visibility of HLP throughout the industry.HLP End User Technical Advisory Board (EU-TAB)a. An End User is defined as any company running or intending to run an application or service as part of an industry solution that incorporates the technology produced by the HLP, who do not offer that application or service for sale to others.
b. The EU-TAB shall be composed of members of HLP who are End Users. The EU-TAB shall approve new End User members. The Governing Board will approve an initial set of End User members sufficient to setup an EU-TAB.
c. The EU-TAB shall coordinate the efforts of End Users through meetings, mailing lists, or creation of Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
d. The EU-TAB may decide whether any meeting, SIG, or other End User activity shall be limited to members or open to non-member participants.Transformation of the way business transactions are conducted globally_9c11983a-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679To advance blockchain technology_9c11998e-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679Peer-to-PeerismBlockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology for a new generation of transactional applications that establishes trust, accountability and transparency while streamlining business processes.DecentralizationTrustAccountabilityTransparency InteractionsThink of it as an operating system for interactions. It has the potential to vastly reduce the cost and complexity of getting things done.PermanenceThe distributed ledger is a permanent, secure tool that makes it easier to create cost-efficient business networks without requiring a centralized point of control.SecurityCost-EfficiencyTrackingWith distributed ledgers, virtually anything of value can be tracked and traded.TradingEnterpriseThe application of this emerging technology is showing great promise in the enterprise. For example, it allows securities to be settled in minutes instead of days. It can be used to help companies manage the flow of goods and related payments or enable manufacturers to share production logs with OEMs and regulators to reduce product recalls.Framework & Code BaseCreate an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework and code base, upon which users can build and run robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support business transactions_9c119c4a-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679a_9c119e02-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679Technical CommunityCreate an open source, technical community to benefit the ecosystem of HLP solution providers and users, focused on blockchain and shared ledger use cases that will work across a variety of industry solutions_9c119f56-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679bHLP TSCe. Responsibilities: The TSC is responsible for:DirectionCoordinate the technical direction of HLP_9c11a104-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679iProject ApprovalApproving project proposals (including, but not limited to, incubation, deprecation and changes to a project’s charter or scope) in accordance with a project lifecycle document to be developed, approved and maintained by the TSC_9c11a280-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679iiTop Level ProjectsDesignate Top Level Projects_9c11a3d4-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679iiiSub-committees & Working GroupsCreate sub-committees or working groups to focus on cross-project technical issues or opportunities_9c11a546-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679ivCoordinationCoordinate technical community engagement with the End User community and with any End User SIGs with respect to requirements, architecture, implementation, use cases, etc._9c11a69a-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679vHLP End UsersCommunicationCommunicate with external and industry organizations concerning Project technical matters_9c11a80c-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679viIndustry OrganizationsAppointmentsAppoint representatives to work with other open source or standards communities_9c11a9b0-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679viiNorms, Workflows & PoliciesEstablish community norms, workflows or policies for releases_9c11aafa-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679viiiDiscussion, Consensus & VotingDiscuss, seek consensus, and where necessary, vote on technical matters relating to the code base that affect multiple projects_9c11ac44-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679ixElectionsEstablish election processes for Maintainers or other leadership roles in the technical community that are not within the scope of any single project._9c11adc0-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679xHLC MaintainersParticipationPromote participation of leading members of the ecosystem, including developers, service and solution providers and end users_9c11af1e-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679cDevelopersService ProvidersSolution ProvidersEnd Users_9c11b068-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679InfrastructureHost the infrastructure for HLP, establishing a neutral home for community infrastructure, meetings, events and collaborative discussions and providing structure around the business and technical governance of HLP_9c11b1e4-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f679d_9c11b342-f160-11e5-a3a2-f7f8f885f6792016-01-222016-03-23OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net