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Work in Progress
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Supply Chain Group

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Please note that this content is under development and is not ready for implementation. This status message will be updated as content development progresses.

Terms of Reference​

Objectives​

  • Deliver, in partnership with disclosure scheme implementers, real world applications of UNTP features including, but not limited to:
    • Digital Product Passports (DPP)
    • Digital Facility Records (DFR)
    • Digital Traceability Events (DTE)
  • Communicate lessons learnt (+ve & -ve) and implementation tips to help lower UNTP implementation effort
  • Develop simple approaches to managing overlapping and parallel data disclosures using the UNTP

Purpose​

  • Through applying the UNTP to real world and relevant disclosure schemes, we will be able to validate the efficacy of the UNTP solution across different types of supply chains
  • Reducing the effort to implement the UNTP will support faster adoption, faster learning cycles and faster improvement of the protocol. This in turn should help accelerate real world adoption.
  • By providing approaches to managing overlapping disclosure schemes we can demonstrate the strength of the UNTP as a unifying standard, as opposed to niche focused on one disclosure scheme

Near Term Goals:​

  1. Demonstrate how to implement UNTP for 2-3 disclosure schemes (or more if more volunteers) by December 2025, starting with:
  • EU Battery Passport (inc Due Diligence Req)
  • Chem-X (Chemicals Industry Initiative for compliance to multiple EU jurisdictions)
  1. Share a detailed but concise lessons learned from existing implementations, by end September, to support demonstration work and any future implementations.
  • Eg High grade DPP page in spec
  • Eg Add insights to Q&A's on the implementation guidance/ HelpAndSupport page (currently blank)
  1. Maintain constructive dialogue with key adjacent stakeholders outside of the UNTP on at least quarterly basis:
  • Other UNTP working groups
  • Cirpass2 (via common members)
  • Scheme owners being implemented and their associated standards bodies

Example of Supply Chain Questions being addressed by this working group​

  • Help address how confidentiality changes as data moves and transforms along the supply chain
  • Consider how UNTP works when there are breaks in supply chain digitisation upstream, which is key to phased deployment of UNTP
  • (Done) Help address how bulk commodity mass balancing (in it's different forms) interacts with UNTP along a supply chain

Mailing List​

A group mailing list is maintained and can be used by any list member to post messages to the group. The list also maintains an archive of all messages sent to the group.

Meetings​

Group meetings are held weekly in two timezones (generally on a Wednesday for most timezones). Please join at the weekly time using following links or email nick@cordina.io to have the meeting series forwarded.

Meetings will periodically work through open issues and merge requests.

Most recent meeting summary below.

Last Meeting Minutes​

  1. Walked through near term goals on terms of reference (updated above).
  • Looking for a volunteer or two to help with translating near term insights into more digestible content for website? @Matjaž Tercelj?
  • For those interested in an update on Chem-X we did a stock take which is summarized in this frame in zoom whiteboard. Also in terms of feedback we shared with Adrian appreciation for collaboration so far as we have built meaningful insights/questions from the work. He also shared appreciation with us for the discussions so glad this pilot exercise is going well and will continue.
  • We'll rotate focus on / off from the GitLab issues assigned to us....good we have started
  • @Susanne I was hoping to catch you to get the game plan on GBA when you get a second

  1. Technical challenge came up in first meeting for the brave hearted....does anyone want to give @Harley Thomas some hypothetical ideas on the following: What instrument/object/digital element could we use to have a single UNTP conformityClaim discoverable by multiple verifiable credentials (and here I'm using VC as a proxy for where access control/identity resolution would sit)? This could then help avoid needing one UNTP DPP for every unique set of claims that are to be disclosed together? We're exploring Scenario 1 in the image below as opposed to Scenario 2 which we currently think is the incumbent UNTP structure.

  2. We will be getting some guidance from the adoption team (via @Adrienna Zsakay) on preferred communication channels for where to capture our lessons learnt in the next couple of months. We should continue compressing out our insights before then and then align to that guidance when ready.