What is up you guys, welcome back to another one. If you are new to the channel, I am Gold Pony on the new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube and today we are in the new 2021 Volkswagen Jetta GLI courtesy of Hanover Volkswagen and Hanover PA. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So I wanted to check this one out today because there are actually some big tech upgrades for the 2021 model year and this of course is the most performance oriented Jetta that is available right now. So this should be fun and so in this video I will of course be testing out everything about this one from acceleration to braking, the steering feel, ride quality, paddle shifter, sound system, exhaust pipe, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it and as always, let's start with pricing. I'd say there will actually be just two trim levels for the 2021 Jetta GLI. First one is going to be the S starting at $26,345, then there is the Autobahn which is the one we have today starting at $30,745 but regardless of trim level that you go with the power plant on this one is going to be the same. Powering this beast is a 2 liter turbocharged inline 4 cylinder putting out 228 horsepower at 5,000 RPM, 258 pound feet of torque coming in at 1500 RPM, power sent to the front wheels to a 6 speed manual which comes standard on both trim levels or an optional 7 speed DSG or dual clutch and that option goes for $800 in case you were interested in that is the one we have today and that does come with paddle shifters like I said so we will be testing those out in a little bit as well but overall 0 to 60 time comes in at approximately 5.6 seconds, top speed 126 miles per hour with MPG numbers coming in at 25 in the city, 32 on the highway with a range of 470 miles in between fill ups that is kind of impressive I got to be honest but anyways that does take regular unleaded fuel however the horsepower and torque numbers are going to be had with premium unleaded so I do want to mention that little caveat there as well but said that before we do any kind of fun paddle shifter acceleration test here in other GLI do want to mention there are some driving modes their drive move buttons located just to the left of the shifter that will include eco comfort normal sport and custom adjusting things like the shift points a throttle response and the steering sensitivity as well so now having got all of that out of the way what do you guys say let's put the paddle shifters here to the test just want to see how quickly they are going to react for us here and actually to put it in full manual shift mode you can do that you simply just slide the shifter all the way to the back and to the right that of course is going to tell you what gear you're in up on the gauges that is pretty nice of course as well now I haven't got all that out of the way let's go ahead and find that straight away let's put these things as a test and let's see how quickly they're going to react for us here there's a good spot let's do this oh my gosh this car pulls hard paddle shifters are instantaneous that is definitely a very good thing a Volkswagen and Audi and Porsche they've always done an excellent job with paddle shifters being honest I think everybody knows that so definitely not disappointed with the Jetta GLI because these paddle shifters are dang quick and car is quite quick as well but actually let's go ahead and give back full control to the GLI here let's do a quick little acceleration test with the car having full control and let's see how quickly we can get this one here up speed. All right you guys in three two one we are in sport mode it was actually not that bad like I thought it was going to be a lot more slipping because this is a decent amount of power being sent to just the front wheels but still this thing connected pretty darn well to the road maybe it's because it's a pretty decent hot warm summer day here but plenty of an acceleration for the GLI without a doubt and that was quite fun definitely not going to have any issues emerging onto the highway but anyways to go along with that as always braking is equally important and so up front you will find 13.4 inch ventilated front discs in the back 11.8 inch solid rear discs as far as that 60-zero stopping distance goes that's actually going to come in at a very impressive 109 feet and you guys that is quite impressive a lot of sedans most sedans out there come in in the low 120s some even in the upper 120 so 109 feet that is dang impressive if I'm being honest so as far as the break you feel goes it's perfectly fine there's no dead spots of course it feels perfectly fine definitely on the firmer side so it instantly brings you to a stop so I am definitely a fan there touching on suspension and handling up front you're going to get a McPherson strut front suspension in the back independent multi-link rear suspension of course front and rear stabilizer bars but since we have the GLI there is so much more to that when it comes to the suspension there is a VAQ limited slip front differential for both trim levels you got to love that sending torque to the front wheel with the most traction so that is definitely going to assist not only with handling but with that better acceleration that we just got as well and there is also DCC adaptive chassis control for the Autobahn that we have here today that is essentially your adaptive suspension system so monitors each shock absorber individually not only giving you a smoother ride but also adjusting that suspension to give you much better handling around the turns as well so really the best of both worlds there but as far as ride quality goes I will say you still do tend to feel a good bit more of the road comparatively speaking to some of the other vehicles out there so definitely not the smoothest ride but I will say the handling portion in the steering feel that is what feels really really good in the GLI without a doubt you can definitely tell this car is geared more towards the handling side of things and not so much towards the ride quality but then if you're buying this type of vehicle anyways that is really to be expected but when it comes to the cabin noise actually it's not that bad I wasn't expecting it to be this good I mean it's not like luxury like but it's a lot better than a lot of the other cars that I've tested lately so not a whole lot of road noise not a whole lot of wind noise coming into the cabin either so really Volkswagen impressed me there when it comes to cabin noise but then touching on visibility I can see perfectly fine out the back and really with the shape of a sedan really all sedans for that matter you're not gonna have any issues with visibility and not only that for both trim levels you'll also get rain sensing windshield wipers so whenever the Jetta detects any kind of mister rainfall let's go to automatically turn on this windshield wipers for you so it's just one less thing you got to worry about it's kind of like automatic headlights for the windshield wipers basically but that about rounds out the performance segment of this review guys let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2021 Volkswagen Jetta GLI. Alright so here she is you guys the new 2021 Volkswagen Jetta GLI finished in pure white in case anybody was curious of the exact color name that we had here today but anyways let's go ahead and start up front let's take a look at that front grille here to start there is that red horizontal bar specific to the GLI with the red GLI badging found just above it of course that is how you instantly distinguish this particular vehicle from the other Jettas in the lineup of course looking down to the corners there there are front air curtains as well helping direct air around the wheel and tire combination then taking look at the headlights LED projector headlights do come standard for both trim levels of the Jetta GLI that is wonderful so many vehicles out there are still putting halogens on their vehicles and not only that when they do put LEDs they typically make them reflect their headlights but LED projector headlights are the very brightest out there as far as the main headlight configurations go at least so that is definitely a big win for the Jetta GLI in my personal opinion and LED daytime running lights do come standard along with that as expected as well but pretty much rounds out the front of this one let's now go ahead and make our way to the side of the GLI and so the first thing that always grabs my attention on the side of this one of course is the GLI badging found on both of the front fenders definitely looks right at home on this one it definitely lets you know this is a more special version of the traditional Jetta which is pretty darn cool but as far as the side mirrors go they are body colored power adjustable side mirrors they will be heated as well taking a look down at the wheel setup 18 inch twin five spoke alloy wheels do come standard with red GLI specific brake caliper so not only are the brakes absolutely amazing when it comes to driving dynamics but they do look good as well and you got to love that the calipers are red because that does match all of the other red accents found on the GLI so definitely a very nice side profile let's now go ahead and make our way to the back of this one it's up and now since we are around back shark fin antenna all the way to the top there very small deck lid rear spoiler also is going to come standard on the GLI LED tail lights also coming standard you got some more GLI badging of course found just underneath of those tail lights there just below it all you will find dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips and a matte black rear diffuser in the middle of it all bit having said that back to the exhaust outlets I think you guys do know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip alright so now since we are around back here of the GLI when it comes to opening that rear trunk there are a few different ways to go ahead and do that there is a button on the key fob itself that is one way there's also a button on the trunk itself of course that is yet another way and there is a button on the driver's side door then as well but once open up cargo capacity comes in at 14.1 cubic feet actually a decent amount but if that was not enough space there is a 6040 split meaning the rear seats do fold down for quite a bit of extra space then if you needed it can find some cargo lighting within that area as well if you were curious whether you got a spare tire or a fix of flat if you lift up underneath of that cargo floor there is actually a spare tire for anybody who wanted to know that answer but then making our way up to the rear legroom it comes in an impressive 37.4 inches so for reference I mean even six feet tall this is how much space I had in those rear seats there there is also a rear center armrest that does come standard on this one but to my surprise there is no rear ventilation and no rear charging ports back there which kind of surprised me since we are on the auto bomb is still rear center armrest with cup holders is pretty cool but then making our way up to the front seats manually adjustable cloth seating coming with the s heated front seats also coming with that s trim level believe it or not that's pretty cool Audubon trim level is going to add to that ventilated front seats six way power adjustable driver seat with power lumbar memory settings for up to three different drivers found on the seat itself that's where those buttons are located and of course you do have leather surfaces then as well with contrast red stitching so overall seats were pretty comfortable we'll say not comfortable like Lexus F sport comfortable but it is pretty dark comfortable though but then taking a look at the steering wheel it is tilt and telescoping it is leather wrapped for both trim levels you got to love that and it is a flat bottom of course because we do have the GLI and you do get some GLI specific badging found in the bottom portion of that steering wheel then as well but then make our way to the startup let me first start by showing you guys the key here you do have your Volkswagen logo on the one side and when you flip it over lock unlock the button pop the rear hatch and then the circular button with the times two in the middle that is going to be your remote start which does come standard along with a push button start as well so therefore all I'm going to do here simply put my fun of the break and press that silver engine start button located just to the left of the shifter there and so once upon start up here this is where it really gets go with the GLI you guys Volkswagen digital cockpit coming with the autobahn trim level only therefore that is why we have the full digital gauge cluster right now that you're looking at the S trim level it's not going to give you that so we did want to specify that but this digital gauge cluster is pretty darn cool to adjust which is on there there are steering wheel amount of controls found on the right side of the steering wheel but my favorite part is when you change the drive mode it actually adjusts the color up there of those gauges for example if you put it in eco you're going to get some blue hues if you put it in normal you're going to get some yellow hues and if you put it in sport you're going to get the red hues so overall very darn cool I love that it changes the colors of the actual gauges and that's the beauty of digital gauge clusters that's why I wish more manufacturers will start making them standard I'm sure they will in the future but again you can adjust what is on there you can actually adjust the entire configuration up there because we have those digital gauges if you actually hit the view button on the steering wheel that is going to make things either larger or smaller and you can really adjust between several different views up there dependent upon what you really want to see the most so I particularly love that feature with the Volkswagen digital cockpit Audi does something very similar as well and that is why I'm always a huge fan of the digital gauge clusters really in any Volkswagen product so big fan of that but now let's go ahead and make our way over to overall interior quality panoramic sunroof coming with the autobahn that we have today that is pretty darn cool overhead sunglass holder coming with both trim levels auto dimming rear view mirror both trims is going to get that as well however we do actually have a frameless rear view mirror with homelink controls for up to three different garage doors and a small compass within that as well by the way that is a three hundred twenty five dollar option but we do have it so I wouldn't mention it to you guys dual-zone climate control coming standard with both trims illuminated door cells that's pretty cool both trims are going to get that stainless steel pedal caps both trims are going to get that as well ten colors of ambient lighting both trims are going to get that as well I absolutely love that autobahn trim level though is also going to give you a wireless phone charger that is located just in front of the shifter along with two phone charging ports although you really don't need them since we have the wireless phone charger after all just to the left of the shifter you do have in a lecture mechanical parking brake just behind the shifter you have a little slot there where you can put that cell phone if you weren't charging it up there at least you have dual cup holders and within the center armrest this actually light colored on the inside of that center armrest that kind of surprised me because everything else is a black interior then we have a very light color within the center armrest that's kind of cool I like it it's different but there is a actually a phone charging port within that as well but overall a very sporty finish very to the point I kind of like this fake carbon fiber kind of plastic look that is just above the passenger side glove box it continues on to the doors it does look good however I do wish the actual door grab handles were something other than a black plastic wouldn't mind if they were finished it a little bit higher quality than what they are but overall this car is more of a performance oriented vehicle anyway so I suppose that is to be expected but now let's go ahead and make our way to the infotainment screen one of the best parts I like about the infotainment screen is everything is geared everything is tilted slightly towards the driver kind of like the Nissan GTR so I've always been a big fan of that car but it's more driver centric so the screen itself though is going to differ amongst the trim levels 6.5 inch color touchscreen display coming with the S 8 inch color touchscreen display then coming with autobahn trim blue teeth and audio streaming coming standard on this one Android Auto Apple CarPlay and actually wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay as well that is pretty darn cool fuel and weather information you can access that up there there of course is your radio information then as well and by the way when it comes to the sound systems here 6 speaker sound system is going to come standard with the S however there is a beats premium sound system with the subwoofer that does come standard on the autobahn that we have today so therefore what do you guys say let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one definitely a very good amount of bass going on with that beat sound system that we have here today without a doubt you could tell there is a subwoofer in this thing very clearly speaking of clarity was plenty fine as well so definitely a very nice sound system for the GLI without a doubt but last thing I want to mention you guys on that infotainment screen released is when you do put this one in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board taking up the whole screen which isn't always the case that's definitely a good thing letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety and so to start front side side curtain airbags do come standard in the back you're going to have latch aka lower anchors and tetherster children for the rear car seats rear child door locks tire pressure monitoring system but also coming standard for both trim levels blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert that's going to be the little car icons in your side mirrors for collision warning system with autonomous emergency braking and then if you were to go with the Audubon trim level that is going to add an addition to that automatic high beams and lane keep assist then as well and so overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the Jetta GLI very fun car to drive not only with the acceleration not only with the quick-reacting paddle shifters but the braking is excellent in this thing so I was definitely a big fan of that very nice rear legroom 37.4 inches is definitely quite impressive especially for a sportier vehicle like the GLI nice cargo space as well ambient lighting coming standard is a huge plus for me I feel like I'm always saying at the end of these videos that more vehicles should add ambient lighting well the Jetta GLI actually has that so that's good if it were me personally picking between the Audubon and the S I would if you can splurge for the Audubon because you do get the digital gauges which is a big win you do get the sunroof you have the larger infotainment you have the wireless phone charger you just get a lot more with that Audubon trim level that is why I would personally pick this particular vehicle that I'm in today but the only constructive criticism that I have since we are in Pennsylvania and it does tend to snow quite a bit I would love it if this thing came with an optional all-wheel drive system because it's a lot of power being sent to the front wheels and although this thing handled it quite well when it starts snowing out you're gonna want that all-wheel drive system that's the only constructive criticism I got here but that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching let me know what you think of the GLI in the comments section below I always love reading your comments feel free to follow me on tiktok if you want to see short clips of these vehicles before they actually get to YouTube be sure to hit the subscribe to the bell notification button if you're in the new car reviews that is what we do here on this channel after all do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video stay gold


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Damn, now I'm using all emojis. Get my emotions out, bro. That's what they told me. Man, this is hard to admit, but you know, I got to spit for the podcast off the dome. Do you know the hottest? Oh, I'm flame, spitting on flame, blue flame, orange flame. You know, it's the same. Damn, they want to see that. Put it on a YouTube. Yo, go Pete that hit the notification bell. Hit it. Ding, ding.  That's a ring ring. Damn, store Dory and go somewhere else. Rain, rain, go away. We don't need you in my help.  I was up to something next thing you know, I'm trying to get back on the road. Trying to get my blow up on YouTube. Yeah, views coming soon. October's very own. No, I send December to that's my birthday. I'm a motherfucking Sagittarius. Yo, who's hearing this? Nobody is because nobody listen in except for my silly psychos. They know how this goes and next thing you know, I'm in the right mode. And then I keep it going last airplane mode. I miss my connection, but we will connect in touchy Philly. I'm every feeling it, but now we touching down six points. I'm talking inches now because now we in the end zone. Where do we end? I'm in my zone. I can't and that's my end zone.  I could keep it going like I'm flowing like a river. Bodies of water, lakes, maybe deliver. No, no UPS today. It's tomorrow Sunday plus a Hurricanes on its way. Damn, I can't step with it. Get my heart beating fast. I'm a flip with it.  Right. Dear deck. Now I'm on ridiculousness. That's up next. Okay, I'm going to end it there. Can I end this stronger? Do I end it with a flare? A flare is a spark when I pop it in the dark. Bro, you know what's coming, bro.  You see it on the top of the surface, but I'm going deep with it, bro. You need to learn this. Yeah, I'm done. Sorry. What's good? That's how we start the podcast. I'm really a fan of how Drake does his and is I'm going to write something like that. I got to write something. What's good? I hope you enjoyed that.  I want to do that more. I want to I want to write like a parody one where I write actual bars that sound good, but talk like super emotional or whatever.  That was fun though. That's what it's about. Enjoy more, bro.  I got Instagram popping. I got everything popping. I know it's hard to keep up with me with all the things I do. But I'm I'm the one doing it. You just follow along. All you got to do you want to know two words.  Enjoy more. That's it.  Helps me out when you enjoy. Huh? What kind of what kind of relationships? That's amazing. All right, what's good?  That's it. We got a new dunk alert. I'm going to watch it right now.  Here it is. I'm going to watch it real quick. Just absolutely disgusting. Where is it? So he dribbles, dribbles, dribbles goes up with it and he just like. Oh, made it look way too easy. His his hand speeds unbelievable. His hand technique is unbelievable. He practices it all the time. He preaches low rims. It's it's evident and he jumps really, really high. Anyway, congrats, bro. That was really awesome. I also did a little reaction video. If you saw that already like a parody, a little skit thing. I love making those skits. What I want to talk about is how fun that was. I don't want to talk about that. I'm just saying that like I had that idea last night because I was scrolling. It was on every page and it was funny and I just started my rehab mode. That's what this podcast is about. It's about my journey, whatever the fudge. I want and yeah, it's really hard to stay cool when your boys hit in new dunks and I could have been there to make. I know that it could have went more viral if I was there because you know, I'm the viral face of viralness. I have a viral face. I have an infected face. I guess that means, but you get the point. It's really hard to stay in my zone of rehab mode to stay. Stay cool when he's hitting new dunks. All I want to do is new dunks and I see comments like, oh, five years. You haven't progressed. I sound like hermit to frack. I understand, bro. It takes me time, bro. I'm not good.  I know most of you are. I always harp on the one negative comment, but we work in.  So it takes time. That's what today is actually one of the views that rehab motivation.  Stay thinking long term. I'm jumping my best ever. I'm feeling my leanest ever and all I need is this hamstring healthy so I could run full speed. Once I can do that, I'll be the most athletic I've ever been and I could jump off one foot. I can jump off the dribble. I can dunk and games. I'll have crazy cardio. I know so much more about my body that if I let this hamstring heal, figure it out. It's just another notch in my belt of what I know about my body and how to keep it healthy because before this was my knee took me like friggin literally like a year and a half, maybe two years to understand my knee to get it healthy. Now it's like gold and I could do so much. I feel so good jumping even when I'm like in so much pain right now I jumped my highest on that 10 foot room. I couldn't even believe I was jumping that high feeling really good. So you got to stay thinking long term really try to be clear like away from your emotions. Like what should you do? What like the end goal is like flying a game and you got to remember that like take just just commit to like it's hard. Like for me, I commit to two weeks. I committed to two weeks. I've already done a almost a week.  How it feels if it's still not good. I'm going to keep doing more but give yourself a shorter period of time so you could try to make it happen. It's like if you commit to saying I'm going to take off a year, it's really hard. But if you say I take off one day, it's a lot easier just like I talk about the motivation in the past. If you listen to the old podcast episodes, make your motivation chunkable that it makes it easy on your brain to accept because it's really hard rehab mode is really hard, but I'm here with you. I'll show you what I do and you got me. You got me to entertain you while you do it. I'm in rehab mode. You'll see what it takes and you'll see long term for those that are there following along closely. You'll see what I'm flying because that's my goal.   And that's what we do. I go opposite with the plants because I'm in rehab mode. I got to stay off my Lance.  You get the point. It's hard. You got to do what you can. So I jumped Monday. I'm going to take off from jumping. I'm going to do like just springy jumps that use. I'm going to post an Instagram about it. Probably on my YouTube as well. I'm just going to do like very stiff leg jumps where I'm barely bending like I barely go into a squat cause I'm laying off the hamstring, but I can keep my like knees and my Achilles getting some action and then I'm also doing isometrics for my hamstring, get some blood flow in there. But even my isometrics, I got to go like the very beginner level. Like I can't even do like reverse plank where your legs are straight. I got to do basically like a glute bridge cause my that's how bad it hurts. So it's like you got to go all the way back to the ground zero and I'm in it. I'm in it for the long run. I'm in it for the progress. I'm down. We got to do it and I appreciate everyone that stays along and sees this because if you saw this past years, like jumping my height or the past video about a month ago, it just type in 2019 highest dunks. Stephen Sally, you'll find it. I was jumping my best ever and that was after like so much months of rehab and I got like a few weeks of like peak fun, but that's how it goes. But I'm hoping that after this, I stay healthy for a long time. But yeah, that's the goal.   I mean, should I give up? No, I'm not giving up. I'm only going up. So yeah, man, I love making content. I love making this podcast. What else that I want to mention today? Um, yeah, that's it. Uh, it's nothing like a hurricane now to like raise your awareness.   I can't even live. You have to move. You have to literally physically move. Oh, the whole a huge storm is taken over the whole state. Rain and wind destroy everything. Okay. Well, like at one point you're like, Oh, do I dunk? That's the other thing. It's a perfect timing for the hurricane because I kind of the gyms might be closed. I'm not freaking gas for my car or food. You know, I got to live off beans. Don't Dorian. I meant to play this storm Dorian. Exactly. He's coming soon. So like now he's swerving up.  I don't even know where you go, bro. I don't know, but I'm going to be swimming anyway. Have a great day. Um, I'm going to make a video soon probably about my progress kind of like Isaiah did. Check out Isaiah's latest game dunks. They're ridiculous. Um, I posted on my story to my Instagram. Follow me along. If you, if you, if you listen to this podcast, follow all my social media because that's where I post all my different content. I know it's hard to keep up.   It's so much fun. You can't keep up with me because it's what I love to do. So it's like, I never get bored and I never get sick of it. It's not not work. It's so much fun when I post something and you guys enjoy it.  Tiktok is absolutely absurd, but it's perfect for my brain. It's like instant.  If you watch my Tiktok by myself, maybe I'll put it at the end of this podcast, but I made that video literally not by myself, by my one hand, like I recorded it brushing my teeth and I put the song on and I typed it. It was like all of my left hand while I'm brushing my teeth, I literally made a Tiktok. If it blew up, that would have been hilarious.  Like Chris Thalia says silly goose time all the time, baby. Let's go. Having a lot of fun. I'm really honing in who I am and I'm having the most fun ever. So I hope you guys are enjoying too and that's what it's about. So have a great Saturday. This is, I could have made this super long. I don't know why, but maybe this time off I have with the hurricane, I can make some longer podcasts. Let me know what you want to see. Let me know what you want to see. Progress video coming soon. I think I'm going to do similar to what Isaiah did. 30 to 40 inches cause people always ask me, how did you start? How did I try to do a dunk series? Nobody watched it. Nobody really like understood it, I guess, or it didn't answer all the questions. So I have more questions to answer and I'll tell you what I did from 30 to 40 or maybe my whole journey we'll see. But I'm making content and I'm loving it and I'm understanding how to make it that I love. Okay, enough. That's it. On this day in history, baby, almost forgot. Let's go. August 31st, we're almost done with August already. 14th, 1142 possible date for establishment of the Iroquois with the aid of Hiweta and Digga Gana Wada. Well, that's something we definitely should know. 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales dies in the car crash, road tunnel dam. That's tough.  That was five. 1993, 50th Film Festival Shortcuts directed by Robert Altman in three colors, blue directed by awarded the Golden Lion. Today in sports, 1947, New York Giants set record of four homeruns, 183, 1999, Today Music Fly. Fifth student album by the Dixie Chicks.  Best country album. Okay, now let's look at the comments for the dunk lifer of the day, the silly psycho of the day. Amanda Castillo, it was, your husband said, energy's crazy. Coffee in your hamstring is a problem. Get rid of it for a week. He was saying that the acidity and the mucus from the coffee, I don't know. I looked that up last night a lot. I couldn't find anything about it.  The other thing about coffee is that it helps with anti-inflammatory. It has some antioxidants and different coffees have anti-inflammatory properties. I think it might be helping and keeps blood flow. I don't know. I love coffee. I don't want to cut it out. And if I found anything about it, I would have tried it, but I don't think that's anything. And I know a lot of people who are performing that have had injuries and have never said anything about coffee. I know a lot about diet and I've done the gluten thing and that helped my inflammation, but I don't know. Anyway, Alex Coons is a partisan saying let's go. Okay. So I'm not dunking for about a week. That means more content, better content, more insanity. Let's go. Have a good one. And if I see Dorian, I'll say what's up. And I'll also say to the low.


We've spent a lot of time talking about rumors and leaks surrounding the Nintendo Switch too. But what we haven't done is talk about what the system actually needs to do in order to be successful. What does success even look like for this system? Alright well let's set a baseline here and say Nintendo's own goal is simply to match the current sales level of the Nintendo Switch. Something Nintendo has never really been able to do when dealing with sequel systems in the past. Now is this possible? Well of course it is, we see PlayStation do it all the time. But we need to get a few things out of the way right off the bat that are just obvious and don't really need a ton of additional explanations so these aren't part of the top five but they're a given. The system obviously needs to be powerful enough. Enough just means that it's in a position maybe even better than the Switch itself was to get down ported versions of multi-platform games. The other obvious and doesn't really need additional explanation is the system needs to be backwards compatible. This is something that Nintendo has done quite consistently for at least one generation in the past but I don't think we really need more explanation. These are just standard expectations and have been beaten to death all over YouTube and in many of the YouTube rumors and leaks around Switch too. Instead what I want to do is give you five major things Nintendo Switch must do in order to guarantee success beyond the things their systems have almost always done. The first thing, a universal achievement system. Look I don't personally care about gamer scores and platinum trophies but many folks out there obviously do care. Be it game developers or even gamers themselves. This is a bog standard feature that exists on nearly every single platform out there but Nintendo. Now don't get me wrong there are certainly Nintendo games that have achievements baked in and sometimes those achievements extend into my Nintendo where you can earn platinum and gold coins. That's actually kind of exciting because with that system you can redeem coins for real world items or even digital currency. You can get like desktop backgrounds and bookmarks and stickers and pins even a key chain here and there or obviously that digital currency to use on the eShop with your gold coins but it's not that trackable on your actual system you have to log into a website and it's not easily accessible either to know that you've attained that achievement. This means there's no true support for all games to have this without each game custom building in this experience. It makes it a hassle for third parties or indie developers to support such systems and it also means most of Nintendo's own games do not offer anything like this. While we can all ignore achievements and just play for those that like and enjoy them it should simply be universal and be at the Nintendo account and or system UI level like it is for pretty much everyone else. It may not be my cup of tea and I don't care about it but there is a reason it's an industry standard. A lot of people like it. Now before we dive into the other features Nintendo Switch you need to have hey if you're new to the channel I would appreciate if you subscribe so we can continue to bring you more content just like this we have some one-off goals out there trying to get to 150,000 subscribers and why not drop a like on this video because I hear every new like you drop on the video leads to another fish being born in the ocean I mean they're probably being born anyways but so the second big feature that Nintendo Switch to absolutely needs to have to guarantee success is modernized online functionality. Look we can go back and forth on the merits of peer-to-peer gaming or everyone joining a server to play we can also talk about Nintendo's old gaming servers versus their new ones or maybe even another server system they could launch in the future these are things that every platform holder struggles with and individual games even have problems dealing with hey is peer-to-peer the best way is servers the best way do we use our servers do we use their servers again everyone deals with this problem so it's not entirely Nintendo exclusive when it comes to that issue however what is is the lack of modernized features we live in a world where we know for the next decade we are getting all future call of duty games we live in a world where Nintendo's biggest games often require or have massive online multiplayer components yet we also live in a world where Nintendo charges money for an online service that lacks some very basic functionality things that can make gaming with multi-platform games on switch feel inferior this should be fixed on switch too we not only need to get local voice chat with a universal system that also enables us to have chat lobbies outside of games just like everyone else we also have to be able to message our friends these are two very basic features everyone has had for decades yet Nintendo is afraid even though a simple terms of service can protect them legally from these interactions Nintendo does have a fairly robust parental control system in place and they can simply give parents the ability to turn off said features on our children's accounts and systems if they are worried about that and that is something other platforms allow parents to do already but we need that modern system in place this will encourage more third-party support but more than that it will also ensure you get the full gaming experience on switch to just like everywhere else bluetooth headphone support needs to be their day one but this time headset support we need the ability to also plug in a headset right into our controllers too it's time to stop ignoring one of the biggest appeals of gaming on consoles and pc versus i don't know gaming on phones bringing people closer together while gaming this is a must also nintendo you put a lot of really cool stats about play time and other unique things in the parental app just make that accessible on the console as a parent i shouldn't need to have my own account registered to the parental app with like that little parental app warning every time i boot up my switch just so i can have the most up-to-date statistics on my account again this stuff should be available locally on the system modernize your stuff now this next one and the third option is a given for a few reasons but it is essential for success because it's a consistent frustration factor on the current switch that might put off people from getting the next system if it's not fixed they need to fix the e-shop look the e-shop is broken it's a mess and this is inexcusable for another generation nintendo like most video game companies are slowly transitioning to a digital age of gaming but that being the case they need to make sure that using the e-shop feels fun exciting and most importantly snappy for all the issues that nintendo e-shop has the largest is how clunky it feels just to navigate it this cannot go on for another generation and it starts probably by making the e-shop a local application instead of a web browser yeah if you didn't know the e-shop on nintendo switch is literally just a web browser application this is a huge reason why it's so laggy to use but beyond the obvious of making it snappier it needs better navigation there should be a suggested content area in your face on the home page of it with your gaming preferences like yeah they have access to all the games you play and how long you play them this should be really really easy to take advantage of that gaming data now i don't know why they don't do this and why we don't have a worthwhile content suggestion feature but it needs to be there we have plenty of companies doing this already and there's no excuse for nintendo not to do this as well that's the best way to curate content and generate more sales so the fourth major thing the switch to absolutely needs is you need to be obvious this is a next generation switch this might be the most important thing on the whole list look one of the most heavily debated aspects of the nintendo switch to is the name we have all seen the super switch suggestions or the new nintendo switch play on words from prior nintendo platforms we've come up with a ton of new names for what's next but they don't even use the switch brand at all nintendo has always done a great job at absolutely confusing consumer bases with their naming conventions and completely abandoning household brand names in the process now there's some exceptions they did use the we you which kept the we brand but in a way that made it sound like an accessory the 3ds kept the ds brand but how do we go from ds to a 3ds is that three screens is that a 3d screen but it still has two screens why is the three in front of the ds is that just another ds like the dsi even names like the super nintendo entertainment system is that just a new version of the nintendo entertainment system or is it the next generation system and what about the nintendo 64 what the heck is that nintendo probably has some of these strangest naming conventions of all console makers i said probably well because the xbox takes the cake there how do you go from xbox to xbox 360 then xbox one one s and x again mid-gen upgrades for some reason then get confused with xbox series x and s i don't get it and their naming conventions are even worse than nintendo's maybe that was something to do with their lack of sales at this point if the next nintendo system is another system that docks with your tv and can be taken on the go which is what we're led to believe we don't need to over complicate the marketing call it a nintendo switch to it's simple it's easily understandable and more importantly it's an industry standard across the tech space it clearly indicates this is the next generation nintendo switch people understand it they know what the switch is and they like it and now they know what the newest and shinies version that's better there is a reason numbers are at the core of every piece of consumer tech it just works but this goes beyond the name it needs to feel like a switch in terms of form factor and functionality but it also needs its own defining characteristics that way when you place the switch to next to say i don't know a nintendo switch oh led you can instantly tell it a glance which one is which but how do you get that well there are many ways we have the colored button theory out there where the right joy com would have colored abxy buttons that would certainly help but is it enough the easiest way to do this is probably with the controller design overall there has to be something different about what is effectively the joy con too but it can't just be under the hood it has to be from an aesthetic perspective maybe you have more ergonomic you know controllers with a handle and the slide controllers off give it a more unique feel and less of a need for grips but what about instant two player controllers maybe you can possibly make the joy con twos have detachable handles i don't know it's just food for thought of course this is just a one-off idea nintendo can easily come up with something a lot better in terms of differentiating the look maybe instead of the tablet being encased in black it's encased in gray instead making it stand out the dock could be completely redesigned with an entirely new and fresh look too yes improvements under the hood to the joy cons are expected but we need this system to stand out just a little enough that when you put them side by side you know which system is which nintendo's design teams are great and i'm sure this is something they have already thought about now lastly this might be the least important one that's why i'm saving it for last but it's also something that helps the switch to go beyond the nintendo switch don't be afraid to spend for the best no we're not talking about price point another widely the totality of how appealing the whole package is will determine what price point would guarantee success and yes we are working with the assumption nintendo isn't about to slow down their cadence of major releases they have been able to keep it going for seven years of switch i have no doubt they will keep it going on switch too this does matter for success but it's probably a given i am talking about spending for more you know how microsoft is gobbling up studios and playstation pays for exclusives like final fantasy 16 it's time for nintendo to open the pocketbooks sure we do get paid exclusives like live alive astral chain and maybe the biggest timed exclusive in monster hunter rise but it's time to open up those checkbooks for something bigger sony paid for from software to make bloodborne exclusive why not have nintendo reach out and fully fund a brand new from software ip built just for them why not reach out and offer to help some studios like say rockstar to ensure games like grand theft auto 6 do not skip switch too what i mean isn't for nintendo to go out there and start buying up studios but they have the capital to pay for more exclusive games major ones from big companies now for the industry on the whole i never feel like outright buying exclusivity rights is always best for the consumer but it does have a proven track record of helping platforms be more successful nintendo frankly doesn't have the chops to make every type of game out there but that's why opening the checkbook could allow them greater variety with massive triple a games from other companies that give them that grander variety then can go toe to toe with what they make i don't have the answer for what and how many of these projects they should fund but i do think they need to go even bigger than bayonetta 3 bigger than astral chain monster hunter is an obvious one again but why not more what about an exclusive assassin's creed from ubi soft just food for thought this may seem like the least essential thing to success but i am getting greedy i don't just want to see nintendo switch should be successful i wanted to exceed the previous system of course there is so much more we could dive into but i don't find anything else that we could talk about as essential as these five core features however you may disagree and whether you do or not i'd love to hear your thoughts down in the comments below so thank you guys so much for being here i am the fanny ruffle jance from nintendo prime and i will catch you in the next video


Thank you, thank you very much for being here. With us, I've been jumping from one session to another. Let's introduce ourselves. John, then Jim, then I'll introduce myself. Please, John. Yeah, Alfonso, thanks for inviting me to be a part of this panel. I serve on the Hyperledger Learning Materials Working Group. I am the co-founder of the Global Blockchain Summit and I'm really passionate about Hyperledger and especially smart contracting. And I do a lot of collaboration with the Accord project team, which is focused on natural language smart contracts. Thank you, John. So Jim Mason, I work with Paramount Software and Sky Web Team as a blockchain practice leader on a lot of different blockchain projects. And I've been working in the Hyperledger space since 2017. Originally, I had worked with Fabric to build out a vehicle identity blockchain. That means I was eventually part of a mobile mobility open blockchain initiative for the mobile blockchain space. Worked on some standards groups there. Part of the European Blockchain Forum now, where we upload study and develop papers, if you will, around topics that relate to regulation or the economy on blockchain kind of thing as well. But I do a lot of projects in the energy space. I've done some also in supply chain as well as mobility. So it's a great technology that adds a lot to solutions. Of course, it's not by itself a solution, but it certainly does add a quote as an important aspect to a solution, my mind, as database or any other kind of technology when you look at it. That's my background. The Learning Materials Working Group, honestly, I lead the Hyperledger Public Sector Working Group, and I'm jealous of how well Bobby Mosquera has organized the Learning Materials Development Working Group. And I worked with you guys on it, but I'll say it's the only one I go out there and I look at and say, well, it's more than just a list of speakers and presentations and stuff. It literally is what I call a library that has been put together and really thoughtfully organized. And to have a library that's useful as a resource, it means that somebody has to curate all that content and organize it. And I will say, although Bobby's not here, she's intently more competent as a curator than I ever would be. So we're lucky that in a sense, she was the one that has put together this group and really provided the resource that I'm using a lot. In fact, actually right now I can tell you, I mined it over the last week. I'm working in trade finance and in supply chain. And if I go out into Learning Materials Working Group, I can find under the use cases section, a lot of resources there that relate to things like letters of credit. And it's not like it has everything in the world, but I'm amazed every time I go back there at the depth of the content that's there along with the templates that we all can use as well. Thank you, Jim. I'm co-chair with Bobby Mosquera. I'm very honored that Bobby proposed me to be a co-chair of the Learning Materials and Development Working Group. As yourself, I'm quite an admirer of Bobby. Her daughter is getting married and that's the reason she'll be with us in a video. I'm very happy also to see that we have a large audience of participants. And the Learning Materials basically, the way I like to see it is like, it is the map of hyperledger, okay? It's an entry point to our inner universe.  We've grown to 73,000 members in the hundred and eighty meetups. We have plenty of special interest groups, special working groups in hyperledger. And all this has happened in five years. So if anyone wants to know, not even learn, but just to know what's going on in this big bang moment of hyperledger, Learning Materials and Development Working Group, we key, it's the place to come, okay? And it's a place to come because among other things, it's basically what Jim referred to as a library. It's a library of knowledge of other parts and pieces of hyperledger, mainly the special interest groups and there are templates for everyone. And originally, well, I was in the public sector long, long time ago, Jim, with Gross Schumann when it began. And I remember that Bobby was the one that took us by the hand on how to use the wiki. I've been in the social impact very much into the climate action and accounting, into the ID working group within the capital market. Now, I've been in a lot of places of hyperledger. That's why we've created with 10 countries, the hyperledger Latino-American. But I've been in a pilgrimage of different sites and little chapels of hyperledger. And what I would like to do in this short period of time is ask you what our wiki is. Besides listening, John, you have the video of Bobby. Maybe we should go there first, but what I'd like to ask you in the panel is, what do we have in the wiki? What can we do with it? And what new fields of interaction can we work both inside hyperledger and outside hyperledger? So, John, would you help us sharing your screen and showing us what Bobby has to say for us? Sure, I'm glad to do that. And I think just before I try this out, and this is just gonna be a test because I'm gonna run it out of a Google Chrome tab. But I think what Arnaud said this morning in his keynote address was he mentioned Bobby and mentioned her boundless energy. And I will definitely echo that sentiment. And I think really, her contributions to the Learning Materials Working Group cannot be understated at all. And she would definitely join us if her daughter wasn't getting married today, but she has really been a core contributor to that. And I'm gonna see if I can share a video now. Hi, and welcome to the Global Forum. My name is Bobby Muscara, and I'm the co-chair of the Learning Materials Development Working Group. The purpose of the Learning Materials Development Working Group is to organize and share the information that the community has created. Let me show you how to find us. We can be found on the main hyperledger wiki page, just go to their blue dropdown menu bar and go to Groups and select the Learning Materials Development Working Group. Once on our homepage, you will see a library type book shelf where we have all of our resources, whether it's a project resource, key terms or use cases. We try to organize everything that goes on in the community. Also, our homepage is for community events. We keep it up to date as we like the community to be well informed as to events, meetups and special presentations that are happening that week. Also, if you look at our menu on the side, we have valuable templates and resources on education in the community. So please join our next bi-weekly call. If you're new to the community, it's a great place to onboard. And if you're a seasoned hyperledger community member, come find out what's happening this week. Look forward to seeing you at our next meeting, June 14th. Enjoy the forum. But the main thing what I'll say Alfonso is just the Learning Materials Working Group has really been instructive in creating the learning materials for people to get up to speed on hyperledger. And Bobby's done a great job of assembling that resources and then working with the community to kind of get the training out there. So I think that's really one of the great wins. And then the other thing I wanna talk about also is just your contribution to really looking at some of the language translation, Spanish language translation of a lot of the hyperledger materials. So Alfonso, you wanna talk a little bit about that? Sure. For that entry door that Jim is saying for our inner universe, what happens is the universe is not only so complex and fast, is that we cannot promote decentralization with only one language all over the world. There are many, many, many people that do not speak English yet, okay? So there is another initiative within hyperledger that promotes translations. The Hyperledger Latin America chapter tampons the translation to Spanish. But Anthony O'Dowd and David Boswell began two years ago, the translation of eight languages, Chinese, Japanese, Malayalam and Tamil in India. We have Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian. And the idea is that this is an issue of inclusion. There are two issues of inclusion related to decentralization is to let people speak and understand in their own language. It's different when you understand something in your mother tongue that was said in our language section, the Tower of Babel session this morning. But also we have to break the silos and that's something that the trade finance group with Andrea Rosinini and Sai Chen and myself, I'm also involved with that. Breaking the silo means that we have to connect all the groups that we have developed. Those groups make a lot of sense because they gather together people with similar interests and that helps advance. But we might be advancing something that some other group has done best. For instance, climate action and accounting wants to change the climate through a token. But a dipping in capital market has developed Ethaler which is already a hyper ledger tool that can be used for CBDCs. So one of the things we've seen through the learning materials and working group is that we have to facilitate learning through languages but also we have to facilitate connecting the groups within hyper ledger so that we can broaden our horizons as we were talking before in the virtual meetups session broader our horizons, not only geographically with all the 180 meter groups but thematically. So inclusion through language and inclusion through connection of silo. It's two of the activities that the learning materials is embarking upon. There is a third one with the mentorship projects of the Linux Foundation. We have, Bobby has one, it's called the chain link for blockchain for good and social impact. And then I have the global scouting. That is a project to map learning materials, learning opportunities for blockchain and DLT globally. So we are gonna be working this summer three months, two mentees, one from China, one from India. And we would be working with humans. There would be a lot of questionnaires but also it's gonna be web crawlers, page papers and all that. So basically what we do is connect those gaps. Tim, you once mentioned in one of our sessions what you envisioned for the future of the learning materials. It was a special kind of brain I think you said. Yeah, well, it's just not mine. Well, it's certainly not my brain. Nobody wants to replicate my brain or get too far into that brain, but it's done well. In the past life, building out a infrastructure team where we had to really learn an awful lot. And much like learning materials working group when I showed up here, it looked something like what I had done before. We actually had measured this earlier project where we had said, okay, every time our team, let's say Alfonso or John or somebody works on something, I said at least document enough of what you've done in Alfonso's case, a document enough of what you've done that if John or I have to back you up, it might take us five or 10 times as long but we're not totally lost at least on providing support near you you've worked on. So that was my goal was to make what I call knowledge portable across my team. And we actually measured it and what we found was after 18 months, it didn't happen immediately.  We had this live knowledge base and we literally, the team we had, even though the team had gone down 40%, the volume of our coverage had gone up 300% in 18 months with fewer people. All because back to your point, Alfonso, you were dead on, language is critical to get everybody, as you say, drawn in properly. And I agree that English only isn't getting that done. But beyond the language thing, your point was perfect about the idea that we have information silos and what we really need is far better portability. I used to use the example when I would present to an audience and say, look, I'm not a brain surgeon, I'm not a certified brain surgeon. What the goal of my learning, I'll call it on-demand learning, my ability to deliver on-demand quickly in a perfect world, which is not where I am, I'd say you need brain surgery, John let's say needs brain surgery at eight o'clock tomorrow morning and hopefully he doesn't, but if he did, you'd wanna know that if I was the person that had to operate on them, I had all the skills I needed by 759 to be the best person in the world to perform that task. Well, how can I do that? It's a knowledge on-demand idea that says you're not gonna have the time in many cases or even the notification that you need to, in a sense, deliver on this stuff quickly. So you need to have these resources that are quickly available. And I'll go back to that front door model and say it's a great front door. And we just, I think, with your leadership and Bobby's continue to need to, as you say, add more so that we reduce the silos. And that's really the goal. And as much as has been accomplished, there's certainly more to do there. And I think, again, that test of saying, can somebody come in who doesn't know anything about this community, but is asked or charged? Maybe John goes on vacation. He's the lead DLT guy for his company. He goes on vacation. I come in his backup and I'm asked to put together a project plan immediately because John's not there. Is there a way I can do that? Where would I go for my resources? If, in that problem space, I'd say maybe the right answer is come in here, go to our front door and start exploring and see what project plans, what solutions look like, look at the templates, look at some of the use cases that are out there, look at some of the training available because that's critical. Again, that was pointed to. And I'll call it again to the credit you and Bobby both.  It's like even now we have that other thing. If Bobby were here, she'd be talking about BC employee, right? That whole big fat thing that she initiated that we're now all hooked into, Deliveron, which is the idea that you are somebody who may be technically competent, but you really don't know blockchain and you don't know what the opportunities are in there. And how do you come into this space and how do you learn about what are the career opportunities in the blockchain space? Give me something about what blockchain looks like. Can I connect with recruiters a little bit, understand from their point of view what kind of talent they want to hire? How can I make those connections? She initiated that whole program that we're all part of now helping to Deliver over the next few months called BC employee. And I put a link to that in the chat, but that's a very, very big deal as well. So there's a lot of things that in a sense are coming through this group. And I would say it would, if you don't show up at every meeting, you definitely want to check in on a regular basis to see in a sense what's changing. So as Alfonso said, he has a lot of ideas. Bobby certainly has never stopped generating ideas since she initiated the group. And so all I can say is it's one of the better resources that you're going to find in the hyperledger community for sure, in my opinion. Which is why I think I'm not there a lot. Thank you. We're just about to end the session. Joan, would you like to add a final comment? We're just running out of time. Yeah, no problem. I would just say, check the chat. There's the BC employee event that Jim mentioned. Reach out to any one of us about that. And we're looking to run that starting in July. And then also I put in the link for training. And you can look at certified hyperledger fabric developer training. And I think that's another good thing that the hyperledger learning materials working group has fostered as well. Thank you. Thank you both, not only for this presentation but for all your ideas. This learning materials and working group is what it is because of Bobby launching it, supporting it, but all of you and us collaborating. Thank you very much. Come to our wiki. All the ones that are listening, come to our wiki. Please. Bye-bye.


So maybe we could move now to the migration side. So basically, I'll give a very short introduction because Ana Issa is our expert here on the migration, and she would give you the full rundown. But just from my side, really, the important thing here is the documentation is, of course, the info pack. There will also be information in the testing conditions document. What's very important is, you know, we prepare so much with this documentation. Please read it.  Please read it. Another very important point that Ana Issa will make is that during our migration tests, there are some periods where we will ask you not to test anything else, only migration. We cannot police this. We cannot block you. We want you to please pay attention during this period that it's for migration test only and that you would only do the activities which have been prescribed for you during this period. But Ana Issa will go into that, but it's a very important take away from this one. So maybe Ana Issa, I'll hand over to you. Hello. Good morning. I hope you can hear me. So good morning to everyone. I'm Ana Issa. I'm part of the team that is dealing with the migration aspects for the ECMS. So what we will go through now is indeed the steps, the next steps in view of the migration, what is to come forward and also a bit of the impacts of this new planning. So I think we can start indeed. So what, as Flora has explained in the planning presentation that you saw before, the new go live means that we would have new milestones for the migration to production. But also there was an update or an adaptation of the migration testing plan in order to provide us a better strategy for preparing the migration into production. And this ends up being that we will have additional tests. Specifically here we are focusing on the tests for the pre-production environment or the U-test environment. We will have three more tests in which one of them is optional. So we have test 9, 11 and 12. This first test, test 9 is pre-migration rehearsal, a preparation week, dress rehearsal, and the migration week and dress rehearsal. So it's a longer test. And then test 11 and test 12, they are both what we call the preparation week dress rehearsals and migration week and dress rehearsals. You see the acronyms there. So this information is already part of the info pack under user testing and migration that is published on the ECB website. So I will not go too much on it, but what we can say and remind again, I think we discussed this previously, but the dress rehearsals mean that we would like to test as much as possible in prod-like conditions, and that would also reflect in terms of timing. The rehearsals however are adapted versions of these tests and of the phase, and in this case it's for the pre-migration rehearsal because of course in production we have a phase that is 7 weeks and here we will have a phase that is only actually 5 weeks long or 6 weeks, but there are other preparations we need to do that we will not need to do in the production environment because we don't have previous testing in the environment. So this is the direct consequences on the planning for the testing, for the migration milestones into production. You saw this in the first presentation, so I think if we then think about what this actually means in terms of the counterparty involvement. So if we can go to there, thank you. So what it actually means, these migration tests and the counterparty involvement. So the participation of the counterparties in the tests is the same, or is based in the activities that are expected in production. So if in this case for the migration to production, besides the connectivity phase where the counterparties will try the access via U2A and A2A when applicable, the counterparties are only forced into participating the pre-migration phase by setting up their own users and checking the data that was set up by the NCBs. So this being said, if this is the expectation then for when we apply this into the next upcoming migration tests, this would mean that the counterparty participation is expected only in test 9. In the part of the test that is a pre-migration rehearsal, which we saw it's from April to 7th of June, the schedule. However, as I explained, because this test will be a short version of the test, we are still investigating at your system level which activities will need to be executed. Because we have a smaller timeframe, we will have to have also a shorter version of the test. So we are checking currently which activities will actually need to be re-executed. And in that sense, since the only activity for the counterparties is the setup of their own users, this has still to be confirmed if it's needed. And so the actual confirmation of this participation by the counterparties is expected at the end of the quarter of this first quarter. So by end of March, we should have a clarity if the counterparty participation will actually be required for test 9 or not. Still, if it's confirmed that the execution of counterparty activities would be planned for the test, then this would be no earlier than the 27th of May. So as I explained, test 9 starts on the 29th of April. But counterparty activities would only start on the 27th of May if we would have these activities. So for the other tests that you saw, so test 9 for the preparation weekend, migration weekend dress rehearsals and test 11 and test 12, there would be no counterparty participation expected. Unless, however, as you know, the NCBs at national level, they can request the counterparties to execute some other activities necessary. This is catered at national level. It depends on some national particularities. So if this is the case, if they request you these activities, whatever the phase they are requested for in production, then it would mean that probably you would need to participate also in the tests. But this will then be communicated directly to you by your NCBs. Okay, so just to clarify that in conclusion, only test 9. Then this part here of the involvement of the counterparties as well in the test, which is important, I think Bobby made a reference to it at the start is or in the introduction to this presentation is indeed, it's really important that the test is, the migration test is respected in its execution by the counterparties. And what do we mean by this? First of all, you should only execute the activities that you have been assigned to. So unless it's a planned activity, unless you receive the request from your NCB and it's in the in the plan that you receive that's part of the activities, then you should not you should not execute any other activity, but it's also important that you respect the time. So for example, when we had the connectivity testing in pre-prod, there was several delays by some of the counterparties. So it's important that you keep to the timings of the activities. And also then respecting the environment availability by not carrying out non migration tasks in the environment during the migration test, but even accessing the environment. The same would be expected in prods that you are not in the environment unless you have an activity to perform. And so you should practice the same in the migration tests. The fact is that unwanted activity will create disruptions or unnecessary effects on the migration test that we cannot then reverse or filter out. So it's important that we respect this in order to have let's say valuable migration tests that are then fundamental for the validation of the migration strategy for the ECMS to production. So we would like to reiterate here because we saw some activities in the past in some of the tests that were not supposed to be carried out some even not partaking to migration, there were normal user testing. So I would really ask you to pay attention even though you are not involved in the test as it will be for the majority of the migration tests in the pre-prod environment, it is still requested the view that you take into account the dates of these tests and do not execute any other tests during this moment in the environment as it could affect the migration tests on go. So now moving a bit more into the production timeline and here is a recall of the migration journey in terms of production on how do we get ready for the go live. So we would start by the registration form submission to the NCBs and then the connectivity to ECMS via ESMIG of course based on the green light of the NCBs and then we have the migration of data that is mostly done by the NCBs and CSDs and then the counterparty would set up their own reference data also upon a green light of the NCB, we will have the preparation week and then the migration week and it's all in charge of the NCB and then we have the go live. So we had previously started this journey, the last time we had this focus session we had already highlighted to the start of the journey that it would be in September and it did eventually start so if we go to the next slide what we know is that we were before the decision of the new go live date we were already in this ECMS connectivity setup in the execution phase which was already ongoing for production so we were actually in the step two of the migration journey and then the phase was put on hold because it was the discussions and the decisions of the new go live date so with this new go live date as mentioned by Flora the connectivity phase was also replanned and so the phase will start now again on the 2nd of April 2024 and is it expected that the counterparties would start around 6th of May 2024? Of course this is a tentative date because it is essential that you only start upon a green light of your NCBs of your relevant NCB but it is expected that it would be around 6th of May this is provided for CB will have the start of their own activities then it will be the NCB setting up the data only then can the counterparties start so it's necessary that your NCB finalizes setting you up as a party in ECMS and therefore this is an expectation date so we will resume now with the connectivity in April so it's close enough and the counterparties will then have until the 21st of June to finalize their connectivity testing so if we go to the next slide it's a kind of a reminder of what are the steps then for this connectivity to ECMS via ESMIC so as mentioned the goal or the scope is to ensure that there is full end-to-end connectivity to the ECMS via ESMIC and this is valid for all actors and we want to check if it is working in A2A so meaning correct inbound and outbound message transmission but also U2A so meaning via the ECMS the A2A is applicable only to some counterparties so not all so it's not mandatory it's only mandatory if you plan to have an A2A connectivity same as we had in the connectivity in the pre-production environment that happened last year 2023 in the beginning of the year so when is it planned as mentioned the phase will be from 2nd of April to 21st of June but the first 2 weeks will be dedicated to 4CB activities for the preparation of the environment then we will have the NCBS, CSTs and TPAs connectivity that will start and then the NCBS will also set up the counterparties as parties in the ECMS based on the registration forms received by the NCBS and so once this activity is concluded your NCBS will provide you a green light to say that you can start the connectivity testing it is foreseen as I mentioned that this would be 6th of May 2024 this phase will involve all of the actors then who is the first level of support it depends a bit on the nature of the problem so it can be your NSP support team depending on which NSP you selected can be the ECMS National Service Desk especially for counterparties you would liaise with these two supports and in case of need the NSP team supports and the ECMS National Service Desk can cooperate in joint teleconferences so this is to speed up some of the problems so this is just repeating in production the phase we have already done in pre-production so the key documents for these that you should follow because they describe the steps perfectly would be the target services connectivity guide which is available on the ECB web page and of course then there are the selected NSP documents and guides this depends on your NSP they will have documents on their website as well so this is the next phase in production what we will do but to prepare for this and as I mentioned this is the second step in the journey but there was a step before which is the submission of the registration forms and also in preparation for the connectivity there are certain activities you need to do with your NSP specifically so in preparation for this phase and we know that this phase had already started and then was put on hold so we know that for many of the counterparties you have probably already executed these activities so you would not need to re-execute them again in principle but it's still important for you to validate that you have performed all of the necessary steps so don't wait until you know 6th of May to check that you have all of the necessary prerequisites to start the connectivity take care of it now so that you can start on the 6th of May as expected so for these you have this kind of a checklist here with these two tasks so the first one is all of the necessary steps at NSP at the network service provider level so like selecting the NSP you should have the contract the e-ordering the request for the close group of users subscription all of these it's important steps that you should do they are specified in the target services connectivity guide but you can also check them with your NSP specifically if there is something that you should do and then there is of course the sending of the migration registration form to your NCB if you haven't done it yet you should do it regarding the registration forms it may be necessary that by your NCB that they may request you to resubmit the form or request additional data or confirmation of data this also has to do with the evolution of the system and some additional data that might be required for the NCBs to ask you so this is something that it will be based on your NCB request but please do check if you have sent it already or not and as I mentioned the target services connectivity guide or the NSP should be consulted for further information on this pre-checks that you should do so that would be the next step for us in production in the testing site please do expect to know more about your participation or not in test 9 by the end of the first quarter and please do pay attention that if there is a migration test on going to not do other activities in the environment so I think that's it from my side but probably there will be some questions thank you Anisa super good so we're being bombarded here with questions so I think things are coming in a little bit of a delay so if I can ask you to stay on Anisa then there may be questions that we will come to you but we're having now a lot of questions come in on on the testing Bobby if I can bring Bobby back that would be great yeah we've had a lot so I'll try and group them together in the different areas if you like so firstly in terms of connectivity so what's very important is the specifications for ESMIG these are on our shared documentation page in the ECB they're not on the ECMS dedicated page but we will share all of these in any case but just to let you know that the ESMIG documents are over there now there was a question from one participant about a distinguished name issue and they say that this issue looks like an incident that you need to raise with your service desk and this for me is kind of a a general thing that your national service desk is your point of contact and for something related to distinguished names first of all you must consult the connectivity guide and then if you are not getting results that are as expected then that's when you liaise with your national service desk so that particular one that was posted on the DN I think it's for the national service desk but it's the wider point so then we have also there was a question about 4I you know the use of the 4I functionality now from our side it should be there may be some restrictions to this but this is definitely also one for those of you it's very important of course that you would work in operations maybe while we're testing we test in 2Is at the start and then we progress to the 4Is when we're doing some user acceptance testing or whatever but for those of you who of course will always use it in production if you're having any issues with the 4I functionality at the moment please raise an incident with your service desk please discuss it with them and there may be some restrictions I think there are one or two open incidents related to this functionality but the national service desk will let you know then in relation to ECONS 2 there were some questions about ECONS 2 of course how ECMS will interact with ECONS 2 this is a very important part it may be that it may have to interact with ECONS 2 it will definitely be that we will have to test this we will bring you more information on this if not in a future session we will bring it in a maybe in a dedicated session so let's table ECONS 2 but it is very very important and it will be tested before we go live the interaction of ECONS 2 and how it works or how it would work were we to have where ECONS 2 would have to be brought up the testing conditions document the next one will be released on the 26th of January so in two days time what's very important for everyone is that in the testing conditions document there is always a notice to say when the next one will be coming so for those of you who want to know when the next one is coming it will always be in the current edition so this is a very important one for all of you as well and this is why this document is your bible you will see the updates and you will see when the next set of updates are coming there was a question about testing I think what's very important here what Anaisa was speaking to you about in the connectivity testing there was we're talking about connecting to production so this has nothing to do with what you will test in the pre-production environment you know we will open as Bamanee rightly stated we will open all of this functionality to you we open it in stages we will make it clear in the testing conditions and likewise also for the migration testing there if there are any restrictions in the migration testing we will also include this in the testing conditions document so this is very important for you to consult this as we say you know read the manual this is the most important one the info pack is important but the testing conditions both from a testing and from migration perspective is very important another very important document is the fundamental test cases this shows the fundamental the test cases that you will need to pass in order to access the platform that your NCB will certify you is ready to access the platform but it also gives the overview of the fundamental functionality of ECMS so I think I've gone through everything there was also a mention about the planning of our bill module the testing of the bill module we're not there yet we have still some we have still some changes being made to the bill module we're still working on that but it will be opened up it will there will be invoicing and we will we will let you all know when the time comes this will also be in the testing conditions document so you can see how important this document is I think I have answered all of the yes I think I've answered everything that I thought was open there super thank you Bobby there's there's a question about about maybe for you Anissa about the if there's specific documentation about the migration testing and if so where they can be found you want to bring a word on that yes can you still see it yeah we see it in you good so now for the migration testing we as I mentioned before or the migration in particularly in particular sorry there could be some national particularities of the NCB of different NCB so the documentation if it's shared is shared directly by the NCBs with the counterparties so whatever documentation is available for the tests they are made available through or even the migration in production they are made available directly through the NCB now what you can find published on the website is of course as mentioned is the dates for the migration tests and even in the info pack you have more details on the division of the test let's say so by actor when would they be expected to participate in a specific test so this information is included in the info pack and then specific documentation saying which step you need to do when then this is provided by the NCB even case there is counterparty activity expected in that test so as you may see only up to now only test for have the participation of the counterparties because it was a pre-migration dress rehearsal and besides that the connective the different connectivity phases in in this case in the new test environment so that's why also you might only have received information once about migration test because this was the only test and it was in I think April or May 2023 so it has been a while but now of course if test line the counterparty participation is confirmed then your NCB should provide you more information on when your activity is expected we had a few questions about a specific slide you want to say a few words on this one so it's about the production migration so I think they are referring to this slide right Anisa Yes so this slide it's so the previous slide to this is the journey to production so to clarify this is the migration journey in production so it's not about the migration test it's about the steps that you that we will take in order to reach the go live in the production environment so based on these and we are on step 2 or we will start step 2 soon we were in step 2 and we will restart so it's important that you check that you have executed step 1 which means we lost we lost your voice Anisa we lost you still okay while she's gone we move to Bopi and then we bring you back okay Bopi over to you yeah yeah so basically what's important here there was a question in the chat about will we be able to test during the migration phase so I think for me there's two points Anisa made the point during our migration testing there will be restrictions to your testing and Anisa will make that clear but during migration in production which Anisa is going through with you now our test environment will be open and while we have a formal end of testing in the planning you know for the end of September or whatever the test environment will be open you will have access you will be able to test in October you will be able to test right up to the you will be able to test right up to the go live and even after because of course you know when we when we move to production we will then be testing the new releases in the test environment so there is no plan to close the test environment for those of you the only restriction as I said in the test environment may be brought about by as Anisa explained the migration test and then we would ask you not to test other things that are non-migration related during that period and then when we move to production you will still be on the lower level able to test as much as you want all functionalities but no restriction while this pre-migration that Anisa is describing here is taking place and then for the step two as Anisa said you know the connectivity this was the point that some of you have already reached and those of you who have not we ask you to catch up and those of you who have you know you are now already ready we had a little bit of a halt because of the rescheduling but now we can start to progress again follow the timetable that's being set for you by the relevant documentation and those of you who were who had not reached it to that time now is the time to catch up I think that's the summary of Anisa's points and also the questions that we had and then the fundamental test cases there was another question in the chat is there a link between the functionality and the fundamental test cases so this is the fundamental test case documentation in that documentation is literally the section of the UDFS the section of the documentation the description of the functionality and everything is in this so that is very very important indeed for you to know all right super I don't know if sorry there was one more Elin and it was important as well it was a question Elin about our period of disconnecting where we disconnect from T2S and from CLM and of course there will be restrictions you know there will be the point is that you could at the moment you know the messaging flow between ECMS and the other services is cut off but nonetheless there are numerous functionalities and there are lots of things that you will be able to test testing is not halting we will be concentrating on we will be concentrating on functionalities and certain things where we personally be taking the opportunity to do a volume test for example during this period and certain things like that in order to keep the testing continued but to be able to do it and also there is the simulator which will be reconnected so it's not as good sadly as the T2S as good as the CLM but nonetheless the simulator is there to bring further value and it has been used before so we will try to make it as good as we possibly can but of course as you know as you all know the best is when we are fully connected and I explain to you the reason why we must disconnect in order to give the T2S community and the T2S community production like conditions during that period thank you Bobby so I think we covered a lot there I just want to see if we can bring Anisa back do we have sound on you again or I think so yes we do, apologies for that no worries so is there another question that you would like me to address Eileen so it's a bit of KO taking the chat I don't know if Bobby confirmed this but there was a question about the connectivity in phase that we would have and if the other functionalities would be available but I think Bobby replied that only the connectivity is for prods environment not for the user testing environment so I think that one was covered and as I mentioned the info pack on the user testing and migration contains the dates for the migration test so it should be available there but I think also the testing conditions I think Bobby mentioned before also usually cover any unavailability of the environment so you could also check there is there other questions Eileen that you would like me to I think this covers it you are bombarding us here so thanks a lot for that but I think we are covered on most of it we are just double checking here is there anything more we want to go back to now Bobby Flora is there anything that we are missing I think we have managed to cover most of the questions in here so then I just want to thank Anisa as well and thanks for coming back for picking up questions and also Bobby to jumping in here thanks there is one thing that I have been referring to mandatory test cases this is from my old T2 days here in the ECMS they are called the fundamental test cases so just to everyone in the terminology it is definitely the fundamental test cases here in ECMS yeah exactly super thanks for that Bobby


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