Following November’s chain partition incident, Intersect’s Technical Steering Committee and Security Council have authorised the creation of the Chain Partition Incident Analysis Working Group.

The group met for the first time on the 26th of November, spinning out of the incident response “War Room”. It included community experts and participants from Input Output, Cardano Foundation, and Intersect.

What will the group do?

The first few meetings have been utilized to discuss the group’s remit and desired outcomes. Primarily, the group will author a report containing:

• Factual evidence of what happened
• Discussion of why it happened
• Recommendations for the future

Specifically, the report will not attempt to assign blame, create culpability, or control information, but simply to establish a credible factual basis that allows the incident to be adequately understood, to maintain public confidence in Cardano.

In the coming days, the working group aims to ratify its proposed charter, thereby confirming its remit.

As of December 1st, the group formally committed to releasing an initial version of the incident report by December 19th.

Why will the group do this?

Spinning out of willing participants from the “War Room”, the group wishes and believes it can meet its remit while nurturing clear, precise, and transparent communication with the community.

Participants have a wealth of applicable knowledge and experience, and many have been directly involved in incident response.

What happens next

The working group invites anyone who wants to participate and believes they can to reach out to: technical-steering-committee@intersectmbo.org.

Communications like this post will be shared once a week to provide an update on the group's progress. Furthermore, the group wishes to ensure transparency by sharing all meeting recordings and transactions via its gitbook space.