Updates from TSWG members of general interest to the group.

• Wenjing Chu announced that the Metaverse Standards Forum has been launched to coordinate standards for the metaverse. 
  • W3C is a founding member along with Khronos (sponsor).
  • Will cover media and formatting standards, such as video, AR, and VR, that can be processed in the cloud and delivered to different devices.
  • The goal is for interoperability and portability so avatars can traverse across metaverse spaces.
  • Identity is a key requirement.
• VC 2.0 ___________

•  ACTION: Members of TSWG to review the draft charter for the AI & Metaverse Technology Task Force for discussion and action at the next meeting.
•  ACTION: Drummond Reed to schedule this review for the next meeting.

Trust Registry TF — Darrell O'Donnell

• No major update other than the V1 spec needs to be completed.
• Lucy Yang shared with Drummond at Identiverse that the WHO is quite interested in a V2.
• Darrell said that some of the work at DIF also aligns. 
• Drummond mentioned that work on revocation _____________. 

ACDC TF — Sam Smith Philip Feairheller 

• Drummond reported that there is a fairly complete version of the spec.

Technology Architecture TF — Drummond Reedand Wenjing Chu 

• We have moved over onto GitHub where we are starting to work in GitHub issues.
• The Markdown document has been started there.
• There is an ongoing discussion about the technical depth of this version of the spec.
  • We hope that the high-level policymaker document will clarify this.
• Wenjing felt that the most important deadline is the upcoming Hyperledger Global Forum meeting in Dublin starting Sept 12.
  • Judith shared that ToIP is also going to have a mini-summit on Sept 14th.
• Drummond clarified that the TF has agreed to add two other deliverables:
  • ToIP Technology for Policymakers
  • ToIP Interoperability Test Cases
• This will allow us to keep the current document at the same scope.

Wenjing Chu Vikas Malhotra 

The AI and Metaverse Technology TF is approved — update on next steps.

• Wenjing is going to decide on a date for the kickoff meeting.
• Darrell will be monitoring it as well.
• Jacques Bikoundou, sumapnair, and Vladimir Simjanoski are both joining this TF too.

ACTION: Wenjing Chu to pick a date and send an announcement email of the kickoff meeting to the ToIP All-Member mailing list.

ACTION: After the first meeting, Wenjing Chu and Vikas Malhotra to prepare a blog post about the launch of this new Task Force. 

Consensus 2022

• Block announced the launch of Web5 (Web2 + Web3) based on the Decentralized Web Node (DWN) draft specification from the Secure Storage working group at DIF.
• Wenjing said that this was the same content that the Block team shared at Internet Identity Workshop in April.
• Wenjing clarified that it ties directly into the work of the Technology Architecture TF on intermediaries.
• Drummond shared that DWN is very similar to DIDComm in some ways. __________

Identiverse 2022

• Judith said that the keynote from Andre Durand, CEO of Ping, announced that decentralized identity was the future.
• Microsoft and other enterprise vendors now espousing verifiable credentials.
  • Alex Simons spent half of his keynote on VCs.
• Lots of sessions on FIDO2 passkeys.
  • There is a question about whether the cross-device sync will work across OSes.
  • Judith recommended that the FIDO2 UI/UX work is a great example of what we need to do.
  • Vikas Malhotra said that the DIF Wallet Security WG is discussing FIDO2.
• A few sessions on GAIN (Global Assured Identity Network), but not as much interest among the enterprise audience.
  • Judith met several authors of the original GAIN 1.0 white paper.
  • She offered that ToIP could host a Task Force to develop a V2 of the paper. They were interested in co-chairing that.
  • Tim Bouma said he was on the GAIN call this morning and was not sure where it was going. Their "Newtonian frame of reference" is hard to change.
  • Darrell O'Donnell was similarly skeptical about GAIN's plans to pursue a "uber federation" because it hasn't been successful. "We can't push that rope."