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Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance

Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance

The Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance (CASA) is a collection of working groups dedicated blockchain protocol-agnostic standards. CASA also publishes Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals which describe standards created by the different working groups.

Table of Contents

• Purpose
• Organizational Structure
• Meetings
• Working Groups
• Members
• Join CASA

Purpose

CASA is a self-organized and autonomous alliance of crypto-blockchain developers and enthusiasts. Its aim to create standards which support interoperability and facilitate communication between blockchain protocols, software and companies.

CASA organizes working groups where proposals are debated, drafted and submitted as CAIPs for the purpose implementation and community adoption.

Organizational Structure

CASA participants are structured into three groups:

Role	Description
Members	All participants. Expected to participate in working groups.
Working Groups	Collections of members tackling specific areas of interest.
Maintainers	Members running CASA meetings (excluding working group) and ensuring overall process integrity.

Meetings

CASA Meetings

All CASA stakeholders are invited to join a meeting every six weeks (attendance optional), for the purpose of:

• Sharing progress in individual working groups
• Proposing the creation of new working groups
• Evaluating CAIPs

Since CASA meetings are primarily intended to sharing the working groups' progress, at least one member from each active working group is expected to attend.

Working Group Meetings

CASA members self-organize into topic-specific working groups. Individual working groups set their own meeting schedule and communicate in designated communication channels. We expect working groups to meet frequently enough to share their progress at CASA meetings.

The CASA meetings note template may help keep stakeholders aligned.

Working Groups

List of working groups

Working Group	Status	Description	Repository	CAIP
CAIPs discussion	Active	TBC	TBC	All
Chain Id	Active	TBC	TBC	CAIP-2
Account Id	Active	TBC	TBC	CAIP-10
Asset Id	Active	TBC	TBC	CAIP-19
Json RPC	Active	TBC	TBC	CAIP-24, CAIP-25
Asset Registry	Active	TBC	TBC	CAIP-19

How to form a new working group

1. Join CASA.
2. Create a description that explains the goal of your working group and related CAIP(s).
3. Submit a Pull Request to the CASA repository adding your working group.
4. Propose your working group at the next CASA meeting. If approved, your PR will be merged, and your working group meeting schedule will be added to the CASA calendar.
5. Recruit participants for your working group.

Members

Below, please find a list of all members and their organizations.

Organizations	Members	Status	Working groups
ChainAgnostic	Ligi (@ligi), Pedro Gomes (@pedrouid), Antoine Herzog (@antoineherzog)	Maintainer	All Working groups
Epicenter	Sebastien Couture (@seb2point0)	Member	CAIPs discussion

Join CASA

CASA will begin meetings in 2021 as we wait for the initial working groups to form.

1. Submit a Pull Request to this repository adding yourself as a member in the table above.

Once a maintainer has confirmed you have completed this step, they will merge your PR and send you a welcome email containing your invitations to the CASA Call Calendar and Discord.