🛣️Roadmap
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---- January 2024----
Implement discontinuing policy workflow
Implement the policy deprecation workflow which includes:
Guardian UI allowing issuing SR to discontinue a policy (version) or the entire policy from a certain date (in the future or 'now').
Policy grid should display a suitable marker against non-active policies, and a different for the ones soon expiring.
An appropriate message posted in the corresponding Hedera topic recording the 'discontinuing' decision
For in-progress projects that have been registered and are operating under the policy it should be possible to 'switch' to the appropriate version of the policy which is still valid.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2030
Gold Standard’s Carbon Sequestration through Accelerated Carbonation of Concrete Aggregate Webinar
Design schemas for the Carbon Sequestration through Accelerated Carbonation of Concrete Aggregate methodology, create a PowerPoint presentation, and conduct webinar.
Development of the policy using the schemas and workflow designed
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2321
Business User Policy Development Feature - schemas MVP
Create a excel 'schema representation' standard suitable for non-technical users. Note: use existing excel schemas from Tools and UNFCCC initiatives as guidance.
Create an explicit template for the above, downloadable from Guardian UI, which users can take and update/change to develop new schemas.
Create an Export/Import UI and tooling which would allow seamless transformation of schemas written in Excel into valid Guardian JSON schemas and vice versa
Ensure manual interventions are possible for corrections/adjustments of complex formulas and other issues.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/1885
Geographic raster imagery support in Guardian
Introduce support for geoTIFF and other raster types of data such that:
Guardian documents (i.e. in schemas) can reference raster data (in geoTIFF and other common formats) which are located on external (3rd party) systems.
Guardian UI can display raster images and their georeferencing data when they are encountered in documents.
Guardian policy can access and manipulate (use in calculations, etc) data from raster sources.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/1930
Development of ACM0007: Conversion from Single Cycle to Combined Cycle Power Generation
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved. Development of the policy using Schema Development of all the tools involved in the policy:
Tool 02- Combined tool to identify the baseline scenario and demonstrate additionality
Tool 03- Tool to calculate project or leakage CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion
Tool 07- Tool to calculate the emission factor for an electricity system
Tool 10- Tool to determine the remaining lifetime of equipment
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2883
---- February 2024----
Support externally controlled DIDs with keys in Guardian
Introduce a workflow into the Guardian where a DID Controller would introduce a dedicated verification method into the main DID for which the private key would be stored and managed by a Guardian instance. This way Guardian would only be able to control the specific verification method's key, but not the rest of the DID.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2678
Development of AMS-I.D: Grid Connected Renewable Electricity Generation – v.18.0
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved. Development of the policy using Schema Development of all the tool involved in the policy
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2919
Mitigation Credits Research
Introduce the ability to mint Mitigation Asset Type tokens as the result of the calculation of the diff between planned (and reported on the Environmental) and actual results of the calculations based on the MRV data for a reporting period. This would likely require:
New type of blocks in the policy definition language specifying 'target' numbers.
Policy Engine ability to mint different types of tokens depending on the conditions
Needs to be linked with GHG scorecards Research #1017 logic
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/54
FireBlocks Integration
We need to integrate FireBlocks , a Key management tool to manage the Keys and secure Guardian. To get complete info on Fireblocks, please look at https://www.fireblocks.com/
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/1314
Development of AMS-II.J.: Demand-Side Activities for Efficient Lighting Technologies
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved. Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tool involved in the policy:
Tool 07- Tool to calculate the emission factor for an electricity system
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2885
Development of AMS-III.AV.: Low Greenhouse Gas Emitting Safe Drinking Water Production Systems
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved.
Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tools involved in the policy:
Tool 01- Tool for the demonstration and assessment of additionality
Tool 03- Tool to calculate project or leakage CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion
Tool 05- Baseline, project and/or leakage emissions from electricity consumption and monitoring of electricity generation
Tool 19- Demonstration of additionality of microscale project activities
Tool 21- Demonstration of additionality of small-scale project activities
Tool 30- Calculation of the fraction of non-renewable biomass
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2880
Development of AMS-III.H.: Methane Recovery in Wastewater Treatment
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved. Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tools involved in the policy:
Tool 03- Tool to calculate project or leakage CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion
Tool 04- Emissions from solid waste disposal sites
Tool 05- Baseline, project and/or leakage emissions from electricity consumption and monitoring of electricity generation
Tool 06- Project emissions from flaring
Tool 32- Positive lists of technologies
Referral Link: https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2881
---- March 2024----
Conforming to Hedera DID, VC, VP, Standards
Update to memo field VP/DID structure to normalize DID spec with the rest of Hedera DID method work (which will also be updated)
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2211
Remove requirement for hardcoded (error prone) status options
The ability to define states and to link it to a type, perhaps been able to link a button or UI to a set of states. There should be warnings for modifying, a state label or title within the UI, whereby it makes it harder for an asset to be identified. In addition, the validation check should ensure that the correct states have been selected for button objects or other like-UI, to reduce the time and frustration hardcoding different states.
In short, standardizing all state options for all policies -- perhaps having a new type of button that is linked to a custom state list/enum sat with drop-down links could be the way to go.
The states could be anything, but the goal would be to be standardized throughout all policies:
approved
rejected
etc
While this is good for the demand side of value extraction. This is highly beneficial for the creator of policies as you could select the correct value from a state-list drop down instead of having to hardcode all state options for button, selection or filters for approved or rejected states.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2791
Development of PWRM0002 Plastic Waste Recycling Methodology, v1.1
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved.
Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tool involved in the policy
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2920
DLT to Address Flawed Methodologies Blog
Draft and published a blog post on the topic of DLT as a solution to address poor data quality and flawed emission and carbon credit methodologies.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2906
Development of AMS-I.F.: Renewable Electricity Generation for Captive Use and Mini-Grid
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved.
Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tools involved in the policy:
Tool 01- Tool for the demonstration and assessment of additionality
Tool 03- Tool to calculate project or leakage CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion
Tool 04- Emissions from solid waste disposal sites
Tool 05- Baseline, project and/or leakage emissions from electricity consumption and monitoring of electricity generation
Tool 06- Project emissions from flaring
Tool 12- Project and leakage emissions from transportation of freight
Tool 13- Project and leakage emissions from composting
Tool 14- Project and leakage emissions from anaerobic digesters
Tool 16- Project and leakage emissions from biomass
Tool 33- Default values for common parameters
Referral Link: https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2882
Development of AMS-I.A.
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved.
Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tools involved in the policy:
Tool 05- Baseline, project and/or leakage emissions from electricity consumption and monitoring of electricity generation
Tool 16- Project and leakage emissions from biomass
Tool 21- Demonstration of additionality of small-scale project activities
Tool 33- Default values for common parameters
Referral Link: https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2884
Development of AMS-I.C.: Thermal Energy Production with or Without Electricity
Designing the Schema for the methodology
Development of the policy
Development of all the tools involved in this policy
Tool 03- Tool to calculate project or leakage CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion
Tool 05- Baseline, project and/or leakage emissions from electricity consumption and monitoring of electricity generation
Tool 06- Project emissions from flaring
Tool 07- Tool to calculate the emission factor for an electricity system
Tool 09- Determining the baseline efficiency of thermal or electric energy generation systems
Tool 12- Project and leakage emissions from transportation of freight
Tool 16- Project and leakage emissions from biomas
Tool 19- Demonstration of additionality of microscale project activities
Tool 21- Demonstration of additionality of small-scale project activities
Tool 22- Leakage in biomass small-scale project activities
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2873
---- April 2024----
Live project (data) migration across Policies, across Guardian instances
Implement User Interface (UI) and tooling allowing users to execute multiple cycles of 'export a live project' from a policy and 'import a live project' into another policy. This migration process should work irrespective of the policy versions, standard registries, and Guardian instances, automatically mapping data/documents to the corresponding policy steps in an intelligent way, referring to the Project Developer in situations needing human input via a convenient UI/UX ('User Experience'):
Project Developer can preview and assess the compatibility of policies and data, and the result of the migration using something analogous to the 'dry-run' mode.
For cases where the 'new' schemas and policy steps match perfectly the 'old' valid data/documents from the 'source', the 'old' ones should be automatically accepted into the 'target' policy flow with no human intervention.
Project Developer can review and select/guide the matching and the destination of the 'source' data/documents into the new policy flow with full visibility with regard to:
'source' and 'target' policy structure (side by side), with details of block parameters etc where required.
content of the original and destination documents with field-level granularity
Where data needs to be augmented and thus new signatures are required the corresponding Guardian users (e.g. Standard Registry) get requests to sign the data.
The migration process should be automated, and should result in the 'stopped' project/policy execution on the 'source platform' and 'resumed' from the same point in the policy flow on the 'destination' (other) platform, with full data and tokens visibility and provenance provability in the trust chain. The 'old' data and artifacts produced on the 'source' should be fully useable on the 'target', e.g.
used in reports
viewable in the UI
data referencable and useable in calculations and other policy actions (such as minting)
operations on 'old' tokens are supported in the new policy smart contracts (retirement, exchanges, etc)
Referral Link: https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/3176
Development of AMS-III.AU: Methane Emission Reduction by Adjusted Water Management Practice in Rice Cultivation – v.4.0
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved.
Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tool involved in the policy
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2921
---- May 2024----
Global environmental/Guardian data search (indexer) component for Hedera and IPFS
Improve the data storage and indexing capabilities of Guardian for the data belonging to the local instance such that complex analytical queries could be run efficiently, such as 'search for data similar to this' and 'what is the possibility of this being a double entry for something submitted elsewhere'.
Introduce a global search and indexing capability for data produce by other (all) instances such that queries above could be run on the entire body of Guardian data produced from the beginning of time (in blockchain sense).
Extend Block and policy discoverability/search #2281 for users to be able to preview the usage of the block without having to import "other SR's" policy into their Guardian instance
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2629
Full project data comparison as produced/captured by policies
Introduce a comparison functionality where it'd be possible to 'diff' arbitrary sections or the entire trust-chains for different tokens, potentially issued by different policies such that the system would:
graphically display the differences where a user would then be able to 'scroll' through and review them in the UI
get a numerical 'similarity score' indicating how similar the two 'chains' are
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2704
Revamp Guardian user/roles and permissions model
Fundamentally separate the concept of users, roles and permissions in Guardian
Introduce granular concept of permissions which could be assigned to users, a user could then perform a specific function within the role if its assigned role 'contains' this permission. These should include (but not limited to):
Policy edit/submit for review
Policy view
Policy approval & publish
Introduce a "user admin" role, which allows:
defining new roles from permissions
assigning of roles to users
Create a permissioning system which verifies actor role before any action has been taken throughout Guardian
Package in suitable most-common role set into Guardian so it can be operated immediately 'out of the box' without the need for additional configuration
Create a concept of 'delegation' where a user with a particular role/permission can explicitly 'delegate' this role/permission to another user
Introduce the functionality to produce a report (page, download) which lists all users and their roles/permissions mapping in the system
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2844
Development of VMR0006: Energy Efficiency and Fuel Switch Measures in Thermal Applications, v1.2v
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved.
Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tool involved in the policy
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2922
---- June 2024----
Hedera interactions resilience module
Create a Guardian 'transaction execution' service which would assure orderly transaction execution and their status tracking, and provide intelligent retry and failure recovery functionality such that required transactions would be guaranteed to be asynchronously executed once, and only once, and in the right order.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2905
Further evolution of policy comparison (a.k.a 'mass diff')
Relying on the work done in the course of #1793 (i.e. creating data structures (hashes) to enable more efficient comparison), allow for mass-comparison of policies such that a user should be able to search for local policies 'similar' to 'different' to some other policy based on some similarity threshold. This is related (but different) to #2281 as it focuses on 'easy diff' vs 'easy search'.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2706
Guardian Oracle service to verify token trust chain from within Hedera smart contracts
Develop a Guardian 'Oracle' service to produce (at least) a verifiable binary valid/not valid answer for a given token or group of tokens reachable from within the smart contract, which can then form the basis conditional operation inside the smart contract.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/1040
Development of AMS-I.E: Switch from Non-Renewable Biomass for Thermal Applications by the User – v.13.0
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved.
Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tool involved in the policy
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2923
HBAR GHG Policy Research
Create a Guardian policy that quantifies and reports GHG emissions from HBAR, using the GHGP product Standard and ICT Sector Guidance for guidance and requirements mapping.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/1667
---- July 2024----
Conform Guardian generated NFTs with HIP412 for better ecosystem-wide compatibility for NFTs and wallets
Define senisble defaults for all NFT Guardian assets that is the minimum implementation of HIP412 (@mattsmithies can advise on tooling or a method to support)
Move the generated of the current metadata to the "properties" field of the HIP412 Specification
Allow marketplaces to change the defaults for their specific needs on the creation of tokens and more importantly the mint of assets.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/1672
Auto-testing community submitted policies
Relying on the Policy equivalence assessment based on their execution results for the same data #1886 and Full project data comparison as produced/captured by policies #2704 introduce capability to automatically and repeatably test policies
Introduce a hook into the new policy merge and release build events which triggers execution of the community policies regression test cycle
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2847
Code audit: support and resolution of issues
Define scope and organise code audit and application penetration testing by a reputable 3rd party security firm.
Support audit team with Q&A and setting up environments etc
Resolve critical issues found.
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2989
Development of GS Methodology for Emission Reductions from Safe Drinking Water Supply v.1.0
Designing of the Schema and getting it approved.
Development of the policy using Schema
Development of all the tool involved in the policy
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/2924
GHG scorecards Research
Identify the KPIs (and the data requirements behind them) to be captured by the Environmental scorecards to best support demand signaling.
Identify the business requirements for the Environmental Scorecards, i.e., how they could be used by supply and demand-side actors, markets, etc.?
Referral Link : https://github.com/hashgraph/guardian/issues/1017
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