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2020-08-19 Meeting (Open Conversation Edition)

  • Presentation (Google Slides format—includes a summary of all our Working Group and Task Force activity)PDF format):

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  • John Jordan gave an update on his medical situation
    • Background and updates are available on this CaringBridge page
    • John expressed that he is very honored to be able to continue as Executive Director
    • It has massively increased his awareness of the requirements for accessibility and usability of ToIP
    • He is particularly excited about the launch of the Human Experience Working Group next month
    • He has not been able to join many WG meetings since his accident, but is hoping to be able to start attending more
    • He introduced Dave Luchuk, our new full-time Program Manager, who John has known for 20+ years
  • Dave, who just started this week, gave an introduction
    • He pointed out that his onboarding to the Linux Foundation
    • Based in Ottawa, he has been a manager for a number of large projects for the Government of Canada
    • His strongest interest, across all the projects he has been a manager for, is how to help
    • His goal is to help all of the members, Working Groups, and Task Forces to achieve their objectives
    • Dave is available to all members for help with anything you need to accomplish your objectives—you can reach him at:
      • Slack: Dave Luchuk
      • xxx
  • Wenjing Chu, Futurewei
    • Gave an overview of why Futurewei is interested in trusted communications
    • Wants to facilitate greater security and privacy in Futurewei's software and services
    • Wants to enable customers to have greater confidence in Futurewei products
    • Is very excited to be part of this community and to drive to establishing trust widely on the Internet
  • Gabriella Laatikainen
    • Very interested in horizontal interoperability of different ToIP network interactions
    • Would like to find other ToIP members who are are interested in cross-network transactions
    • Currently collaborating with the Findy consortium in Finland
    • Anyone interested in this topic is invited to contact Gabriella via Slack or email
    • Would also like to identify other ToIP topics for the research community to focus on
    • For this, Gabriella would like to send a survey link to the members
  • Scott Perry, Scott Perry CPA
    • Co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group
    • Established a Trust Assurance Task Force within that WG
    • Feels very strongly about the role of trust assurance frameworks
    • Mentioned the role of the Governance Architecture TF as well
  • Kevin Griffin and Philip Feairheller, Scior
    • Focused on issuing verifiable credentials to high schools on their platform to help with the credentialing for college and employment
    • Took their experience and started an open source project called Canis
    • The goal is to allow people to easy spin up a ToIP stack implementation
    • The model is a platform like Kong that helps bring together and coordinate a number of other open source projects to make it easy to deploy
  • Kalyan Kulkarni, Ayanworks
    • Joined ToIP with the goal of getting involved with SSI
    • Has become a co-chair of the Governance Stack WG
    • In India, there is a standard stack (the India Stack) that has been established for citizen and healthcare services
    • Ayanworks is very interested in how that can be integrated with the ToIP stack
    • He believes that they can influence the government policy there to try 
    • Dave pointed out that as an example of the global reach
    • Drummond asked about specific contact points
    • Kalyan said the NHA (the National Health Authority) is the agency that would be the contact for that
  • Juan Caballero, Decentralized Identity Foundation
    • Does communications and outreach for the Decentralized Identity Foundation
    • Co-chairs the Interop Working Group at DIF
    • Joined ToIP because he's doing research throughout the SSI space
    • Is particularly interested in governance frameworks and the role governance will play
    • Invites questions about collaboration with DIF, the repos, interop projects, etc.
    • http://identity.foundation/ 
  • We closed the meeting with a reminder that next month's meeting will be in the Report-Out format

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