 And we are live from the MIT Media Lab and also from the sunny state of California. We're Daniel and I co-chairs for the upcoming W3C blockchain workshop, helping Doug and others out to organize it. We're going to just give some announcements and quick updates on how it's coming together. And then let you know a little bit more about how you can participate. Daniel, can you bring us up to speed? Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, we had a call last week, basically laid out the format that we want to see in the workshop. And then in addition to that, we talked about the invites going out. That was something that occurred. It's been happening over the last week. We've got, you know, a ton of responses. And, you know, I think we're going to have a packed house. The next item of business that we want to do is finalize the topics that we're going to discuss at the workshop. And those will be based on the review feedback that we gathered this last week via the form that was put together to gather the feedback. So that's something we'll be discussing on tomorrow's call. And that happens at 11 p.m. Pacific time, 2 p.m. Eastern time. And you can go ahead and jump on there and we'll talk about, you know, what topics are really going to be finalized and locked in. And then have a brief period of discussion about event logistics related to the open items we have. So, yeah, if you want to find out more about those items, come on down in the meeting tomorrow at 11 p.m. 11 a.m., gosh darn it. I put that in the email. That's right. Yeah, I thought you were just going party at Daniel's house, I guess. And look, hey, we're joined by another of our co-chairs, Neha. Would you like to just introduce yourself? Sure. Hello, everyone. I'm Neha, one of the co-chairs. Sorry, I'm late. And happy to be here for the hangout. Thanks, Neha. So, Dan just gave a quick download on current status. And one thing I might clarify is the invitation to jump on the call is really primarily directed, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong, to the members of the program committee who would be on that call. Is that right? Okay, so for all of you who are watching, who are interested and you're not on the program committee, another thing that we can invite you to do is we also want to hear from you. And I know there's getting a lot of emails lately from New York in particular, folks that are not going to be joining us in person but who are following along. If you'd like to contribute and make your opinions known, go ahead and sign up for online participation at law.mit.edu forward slash blockchain. And there's a form there at the bottom of the page where, as long as you agree to make your contributions under Creative Commons so we can actually share them and use them, we've kind of volunteered here at the Media Lab as one of the hosts to go ahead and monitor those forms and help to make that happen so we can have some communication for everybody that's not on the program committee and who will miss our scintillating call tomorrow. And so having said that, can I ask, do either of you have a preliminary sense, having looked at the feedback of what we might expect by way of, is there any clustering that you've noticed or is anything, you know, seem to fall into shape yet by way of issues or options, we need to wait till to talk that through tomorrow. I know that Daniel takes this one. I was going to say the same thing, but it's so rotten. No problem. I reviewed quite a few of them. I did not look for patterns in the return results yet. I figured that we're doing that tomorrow. Ditto, I haven't looked either. So we will probably have a lot more to say next week. Let's see, is there anything else on logistics? I can't think of anything. I think Doug might talk through some. I hope tomorrow Doug talks through some of the more menial things that people want to know as they head out. Because obviously there's more granular stuff than is just on the I'm based agenda. So I'm sure we'll get a little bit of detail as we get closer. Very good. So I don't want to belabor this. It's really just intended for mostly broadcast updates and announcements, and I think we've more or less done that. Anything else you think we need to add at this point? I was just going to say for a little more content, maybe each of us could kind of share, you know, sort of the thing that we're most excited about for the workshop. That might be fun just to kind of build a little interest. So I'm almost positive by suggesting it. That's implied volunteer to go first, right? I actually didn't think about that. Unfortunately. Well, I guess I can say I'm really excited about the group of people that we're going to have in the room. And I wish it could be even more, but I'm really happy there's going to be a lot of people joining us virtually. And I think, you know, the people there are going to represent a large variety of different industries, people who've been thinking about this space for a long time. Even if it's a case that we don't really necessarily come up with groundbreaking ideas around standardization, I'm sure that this is an opportunity, it's going to be a really good one to come together and to talk about this in the W3C context. Right here. Well, I'd like to go second. So following up on that, I was telling somebody last night when I was kind of getting these little participation forms ready and wondering what are you doing here so late about the workshop and what I found myself saying at some length and kind of excitedly was it seemed to me that, number one, we do have a reasonable opportunity, I think, to uncover some candidate that may be right for standardization for the W3C and that is the explicit purpose. But what I was talking about mostly wasn't that. It was all the opportunities when all these people are together looking from various vantage points at where the value is for interoperability, where the value is for common approaches and all the conversations and the side dialogues and the relationships that are built from those shared perspectives. I was saying I feel it's very likely and I predicted that there will be a great many innovations that occur just as a result of the dialogue about what could be standardized, leaving aside the explicit result of the standards, which I'm also bullish about. So I'm looking forward to see all the new partnerships and basically all the new creative endeavors that grow out of the dialogue itself and probably some new friendships too because people that come are definitely into the same stuff. What do you think, Daniel? Well, I mean, my greatest area of interest is in identity and I wouldn't say that it's because I'm super interested in cute ways people can log in. I think it's actually a layer that will enable lots of other interesting things. So I'm obviously selfishly interested in having discussions with people during social times and breakout sessions about our ideas to vet them and see if they make sense and hear feedback. One of the things I'm trying to do in preparation of the event to get going is create this browser extension that runs on the standard web extensions, APIs across all browsers that currently support them that will let you, at least from our concept of what a blockchain identity could be, would let you then resolve those identities in the browser and that would be interesting to be able to see essentially a profile view, a LinkedIn profile view if you will that is driven by a decentralized identity or a web page or whatever is on the other end of these decentralized identities. I think that would be kind of cool. So I'm going to try and have that done and have people go look at it, but we'll see. Those are the sorts of things that I'm interested in. Here, here. We actually held twice in the room where we'll be meeting a huge national meeting called for NSTIC, National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Big old multi-stakeholder thing that the administration got started but its private sector led at this point. All the hallways and elevators and like Soda fountains were buzzing with identity talk but it happened, I can say we've tested it to some extent at the Media Lab and it seems to be a fertile ground for great identity dialogue and also for some invention. So I hope you're able to bring that hack together but if you can't, for goodness sakes, you make it available for some of the grad students and people around here, maybe we can lend a hand while you're on the plane and help you polish it before you land. I'll have it on GitHub. I should have at least the scaffolding of it up by the end of the week on GitHub like tomorrow afternoon or something. I'll shoot it over to the group. Maybe I'll put it on the normal blockchain list or whatever. Outstanding. All right then. So okay, we'll have more to announce I suppose after the program can be together tomorrow. Anything else we ought to cover before signing off? Great, well thanks for bringing that opportunity to talk about where we're excited about Neha and I look forward to seeing both of you and everybody else here at the Media Lab very soon now. So until then, we'll see you online. Bye. Great.