IMPORTANT IPR NOTICE

In addition to the licensing terms of this Working Group’s JDF charter, this Working Group operates under the official policy that any Working Group Participant who makes a contribution to a Draft Deliverable shall have a maximum of 45 days from the date of that contribution to exclude any Essential Claims pertaining to that contribution.

Introduction

The Technology Stack Working Group (TSWG) specifies requirements, specifications, and test suites for the technical architecture of the ToIP stack. For an overview of the ToIP stack, see the Introduction to ToIP white paper. For an overview of the ToIP stack development process, see the Evolution of the ToIP Stack.

Scope

The scope of the Technical Stack Working Group (as defined by our charter revised in September 2023) is to define (directly or by reference) the technical standards, test suites, and interoperability certification standards for the Trust over IP architecture stack as described in the Introduction to ToIP paper and the Design Principles for the ToIP Stack paper.

Leadership

2023 2024 Co-Chairs:

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• Drummond Reed (Gen)

• Kevin Griffin (GLEIF)

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• Wenjing Chu (Futurewei)

• Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture)

• Tim Bouma 
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs)

Task Forces

Much Most of the work on deliverables of the TSWG is performed by self-organizing Task Forces (TFs). Following are the current active TFs and their current leads. See their home pages for their meeting schedules.

1. Trust Registry TF (TRTF) — Darrell O'DonnellAndorAntti Kettunen 

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1. Technology Architecture TF (TATF) — Wenjing ChuDrummond Reed 

2. Trust Spanning Protocol TF (TSPTF) — Drummond ReedWenjing ChuSam Smith

3. AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF (AIMTF) — Wenjing Chu 

4. High Assurance VIDs TF — Alex Tweeddale Jesse Carter Andre Kudra Mathieu Glaude Drummond Reed Scott Perry

Currently on hiatus:

1. Credential Exchange Protocols TF

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1. — Mathieu Glaude

Meetings

The TSWG currently holds a plenary meeting once every four weeks on Wednesdays in two time slots (one for North America/Europe and one for Asia Pacific time zones):

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month on the first Tuesday.

There are two editions of the plenary meeting to accommodate global time zones:

• The NA/EU edition is at 08:00-09:00 PT / 16:00-17:00

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• UTC.

• The APAC edition is at 14:

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• 00-

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• 15:00 PT /

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• 22:00-

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• 23:00 UTC

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For See the ToIP Calendar for all authoritative meeting logistics and Zoom links, please see the ToIP Calendar.dates, times and logistics, including Zoom links.

We produce one consolidated set of meeting notes for both editions together. (Where it is helpful, the notes will indicate which notes were taken in which meeting.)

See the TSWG Meeting Page for an index of all Meeting Pages with agendas, notes and recordings from all meetings.

Deliverables

The table below lists all TSWG deliverables and the Task Forces working on each. Bold = completed. Non-bold = future. WG members are welcome to follow the links to contribute, either by joining the responsible Task Force (TF) or contributing directly to a deliverable document.

How to join

After you have joined Trust Over IP, you can join this WG by signing up for the Working Group's mailing list. Use this this link to sign-up for the TWSG-2 mailing list to  to signify your acceptance of the WG charter and desire to participate in the TSWG-2. Scroll to the bottom of the page.  Log-in using your group.io username and password or LF ID. Then click on the blue button button [+Join This Group]. mailing list at lists.trustoverip.org. Our mailing list is technology-stack-wg-2@lists.trustoverip.org.

Members as well as observers are welcome (with the important caveat below).

Participation

For the protection of all Members, participation in working groups, meetings and events is limited to members, including their employees, of the Trust over IP Foundation who have signed the membership documents and thus agreed to the intellectual property rules governing participation. If you or your employer are not a member of ToIP, you may not participate in meetings by verbal contribution or otherwise take any action beyond observing.  To join ToIP and be able to contribute, please fill out the light weight membership application on our website here. 

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

The WG inherits the IPR terms from the JDF Charter. Until 25 October 2023After 07 January 2025, these are:

• Copyright mode: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. 

• Patent mode: W3C

  Mode 

  Mode (based on the W3C Patent Policy).

• Source code: Apache 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html.

After 25 October 2023In addition, the following IPR notice (also included at the top of this page) is given to all TSWG members:

In addition to the licensing terms of this Working Group’s JDF charter, this Working Group operates under the official policy that any Working Group Participant who makes a contribution to a Draft Deliverable shall have a maximum of 45 days from the date of that contribution to exclude any Essential Claims pertaining to that contribution.

From 25 October 2023 until 06 January 2025, the IPR terms changed towere:

• Copyright mode: OWFa 1.

  0 

  0 (available at https://www.openwebfoundation.org/the-agreements/the-owf-1-0-agreements-granted-claims/owfa-1-0)

• Patent mode: OWFa 1.

  0 

  0 (available at https://www.openwebfoundation.org/the-agreements/the-owf-1-0-agreements-granted-claims/owfa-1-0)

• Source code: Apache 2.0 (available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)

• KERI - podcast by (private member) Tim Bouma and Sam Smith