Talking about balancing innovation with operationalization and
standardization, the IOTA Foundation today announced that it
is launching a new team. Named Omega , the new team will be
focusing on the long-term goals of the organization.
Creating the Bimodal It
IOTA is inspired by the emerging trend of bimodal IT in
traditional industry which splits a department into two parts.
One department looks after the support and maintenance of the
existing system while the other focuses on innovation and
expansion.
IOTA writes:
“As the entire IOTA Foundation is tasked with ongoing
innovation, we must approach this problem in a
slightly different way.”
Therefore, they have introduced a new bimodal structure in the
Foundation. They have created two separate teams called
Alpha and Omega.
The Alpha team is dedicated to the current internet (cloud
services) while the Omega team will focus on the Internet of
Things (IoT) vision of the Foundation, working on fog services
and edge computing. A majority of projects within IOTA like
entangled, IRI, libs, coordicide project, MAM and Trinity will
become a part of the Alpha team.
The Omega team will focus on the long-term, i.e., the final
version of IOTA. It will include five important workstreams.
ICT, an IOTA-controlled agent that performs services built atop
the IOTA network and Qubic that underpins IOTA’s answer for
quorum-based computations will be a part of this team.
The IXI interface which aims to extend the functionality of the
IOTA protocol in a modular fashion, along with its plugins that
connect Qubic to the future IOTA projects will also be a part of
the Omega team.
The Omega team will also oversee the different tools used for
projects above and the ICT to Android porting and Network-
bound PoW prototype implementation.
Who Is in the Omega Team?
The team will initially have eight members- Paul Douglas,
Donald Kelly, Sergey Ivancheglo, Eric Hop, Lukas Tassanyi,
Luca Moser, Hans Moog, and Serguei Popov. IOTA notes that
there could be some overlaps between the teams especially
with projects like Qubic, which will be deployed on the current
internet. It also suggests that some Omega projects will
migrate to Alpha for operationalization.
Omega team will work in the “ garage style,” where every
member will choose their work. The work will ideally be
isolated and split into smaller pieces so the codes can be
uploaded on GitHub quickly.
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