openIDS Work Group - 9/12/24 -Meeting Minutes and Recording - Mtg. 1
- Nathan Southern
Meeting Minutes - OIDS (Open Insurance Data Standards) Work Group - 912/24
A remote meeting of the openIDL Project's Open Source Data Standard Work Group was held Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 8:00am Pacific/11:00am Eastern, via LFX zoom.
The following attendees were present:
James Bamberger (AAIS)
Sean Bohan (The Linux Foundation)
Jeff Braswell (openDL)
Amanda Brine (AAIS)
Josh Hershman (openIDL)
Cory Isaacson (reThought Insurance)
Catherine Myers (reThought Insurance)
Lanaya Nelson (openIDL)
Mike Puchner (AAIS)
Andrew Regis (AAIS)
Ken Sayers (AAIS)
Michael Schwabrow (Cloverleaf Analytics)
Nathan Southern (The Linux Foundation)
Dickie Whitaker (OasisLMF)
Greg Williams (AAIS)
Introductory Thoughts/Central Objective
openIDL ED Josh Hershman opened the meeting and welcomed attendees.
The chief purpose of this meeting was a brief level-setting discussion for the ongoing data model work group series, which is being led by Jennifer Tornquist of AAIS. The group meets on a biweekly basis - every other Thursday for 30 min., at 8:00am Pacific/11:00am Eastern, on LFX Zoom.
Renaming the Working Group
The first issue addressed was a initial proposed rename of the openIDL Data Model Work Group to OSDS (Open Source Data Standard) Work Group - Mr. Hershman expressed no objection to this. However, per Linux Foundation policies,, it is necessary to include 'openIDL' as part of the name pending a larger rebrand by the project, which needs the approval of the Governing Board. Mr. Hershman noted that this board review was pending.
No issues were raised concerning the name proposed by group leader Jennifer Tornquist, though Mr. Hershman also proposed that the word 'Insurance' be added and 'Source' removed - in other words, 'Insurance Open Data Standards by openIDL." None of those present raised any objection to this. Mr. Hershman offered to reach out to Ms. Tornquist to get her thoughts on this.
Community Standard
Mr. Hershman stated that a code of conduct to govern meetings was in development and would be sent out shortly, by Ms. Tornquist to the group, pending revisions by Mr. Bohan.
Review of Initial Group Progress/Steps Forward
On Mon., Sep. 9, 2024, the work group reviewed the first of two insurance data models under consideration: the Cloverleaf Analytics Data Model. A second review, of the Lloyds CDR data model, was scheduled to take place immediately after the current session.
The underlying goal is to pick a direction for the core of the data standard.
Per Mr. Isaacson, Cloverleaf previously expressed an interest in combining the best of their data model with the best of the Lloyds data model to create a uniform standard. Mr. Isaacson suggested that:
The work group formally request documentation from both Cloverleaf and Lloyds
Working group members review this documentation
The work group formally reconvene and discuss/decide how to proceed.
It was proposed that step 2 - the above review - take place over the following two weeks, so that when the group reconvenes on Thursday Sep. 26, everyone can share their thoughts and insights.
No objections to this were raised.
Prep for Lloyds Meeting
Mr. Whitaker clarified that the Lloyds meeting would actually include representatives of both Lloyds and the International Underwriting Association. He also made the following suggestions about how this meeting is handled- asking Lloyds/the IUA the following questions:
· What is the most challenging aspect of your work so far?
· If you were to do this again, how would your focus shift, and where would you start?
· What work that you've done so far would have the greatest application for the work we're doing?
· Among other organizations you know about that are trying to push this forward, which interactions/connections/relationships would be most fruitful and beneficial? (Thinking ahead: we may be able to take lessons learned from some of the organizations that have been down this road).
· How is this licensed? (Cloverleaf was willing to open source their model; is Lloyds?) This work group needs to be able to release whatever work it does under the Apache 2.0 license.
Mr. Sayers agreed to intro the Lloyds meeting and clarify objectives up front at the Lloyds meeting.
