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+*Oct 21st 2016, 6 PM UTC (9PM Finland, 2PM EST, 11AM PST)*
+
+**Attendees:**
+- Intel: [Gabriel Schulhof](https://github.com/gabrielschulhof)
+- IBM: [Sampson Gao](https://github.com/sampsongao), [Michael Dawson](https://github.com/mhdawson)
+- Microsoft: [Taylor Woll](https://github.com/boingoing), [Hitesh Kanwathirtha](https://github.com/digitalinfinity), [Arunesh Chandra](https://github.com/aruneshchandra)
+
+**Topics of Discussion:**
+
+*Module Registration and Initialization*
+>Node v0.10 differs from rest of the later Node versions in Module registration and initialization functionality. Is it a good idea to 
+support Node v0.10 for the prototype effrots considering the additional burden on the API desgin ?
+
+After the debate the consensus was to accomodate this difference in the API design as a way to showcase the resiliancy of the design.
+
+*Concerns about backward compatibility of modules*
+
+Most likely NAPI is going to be introduced in a major Node version which will require modules to be recompiled with NAPI. Having an 
+explicit field to capture NAPI module registartion is more desirable from a long term maintainenace perspective. 
+
+*Indirect dependencies on V8*
+>While porting NAPI to Node-ChakraCore using JSRT, Taylor brought up an issue of indirect V8 dependency in NAPI. e.g buffer uses V8 APIs for 
+construction and initialization. Question was how should NAPI handle such indirect dependencies on V8?
+
+The goal for NAPI is to abstract direct V8-dependecies for native modules. If these high level APIs are dependent on Node structures who 
+have indirect V8 depdendencies, this should be handled when NodeCore adopts NAPI as part of VM-Nuetralilty. For now Node-ChakraCore should 
+apply targted shimming approach to make the indirect V8 depdendencies work.
+
+**Action Items:**
+
+1. Module Registration and Initialization for Node v0.10 - Sampson
+
+2. Handle Indirect dependencies on V8 via shim on Node-ChakraCore - Taylor
+
+3. Run perf test on nanomsg - Taylor
+
+4. iotivity conversion - Gabriel  
+
+5. Open up known issues on the repo - Arunesh 
+
+6. Prepare demo - Arunesh