Purpose

The purpose of the STTF is to produce a and maintain one or more templates for formal ToIP specifications. In addition it will develop and maintain a set of policies and directives for the structure, content, and method of authoring of said documents along with the formatting of these deliverables. Finally, it will develop or contribute to open source tooling to facilitate document drafting and review . This TF would of these deliverables.

While this TF will operate under the purview of the TSWG, but it is fully expected to be a polyglot TF having participation and contributions across all ToIP Working Groups in ToIP.

The STTF needs to provide policies and directives for:

Document Format:

• Markdown (we currently require this is the format for documents going to WG/SC review)
• Kramdown
• something else
• currently required for ToIP specifications)
• Kramdown vs. Markdown-it
• something else

Diagrams and images:

Research into a ToIP / WebofTrust diagrams directory:  Decentralized Diagrams Directory

• Mermaid
• D2
• something else

Comparison site: https://text-to-diagram.com/

Differences Mermaid vs D2:

• Images & Icons: What are the available options for including images and icons
• Markdown: Use Markdown for text objects in the diagram
• Code snippets: Render syntax-highlighted code snippets
• Autoformat: Language tooling to autoformat a file
• Responsive dark mode: Can the diagram render with both light and dark mode, - switching depending on user preference
• PDF exports: Can the CLI export PDF output

Document rendering:

• Spec-up (this is our primary specification authoring tool)
• Respec
• MKdocs
• Docusaurus
• something else

Document Structure:

...

• How should normative vs informative sections be distinguished?
• Do we require any Internationalization and localization of specifications?
• What format should references and citations have?
• Format and capitalization of terms and definitions
  • iso lower cases all term definitions, but their usages can be capitalized, but not other formatting is applied
  • IETF capitalizes terms and definitions and their usages... and sometimes italics/bold are applied (cite)

Document versioning:

• methodMethod
• publication Publication deliverable / permanent links
• Spec-Up versioning and git/github strategy - see concern

Image versioning:

• a sustainable way of storing and referencing source and (auto)generated results of diagrams
• a layered structure - and overall maintenance of this documentation for different user groups and levels in a consistent way
• Broken links checker

Tooling:

• A set of GitHub actions that render publicly accessible:
  • Webpages?
  • Word documents?
  • PDFs?

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(W3C is intentionally omitted as they have a well established feeder organization through the CCG)

Updates to spec-up:

add support for `[[bib: XYZ, (http://example.com)]]` or similar construct should render

Bibliography
XYZ

http://example.com

The original deliverable template for reference:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LS8l5cv4ZVqpiqf39hU2KK5OpG5_ycZuLHGc6CumpfI/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs

Deliverables

The table below lists all deliverables of the ACDC Task Force:

Proposed Chairs

Please add your name to this list if you wish to be a chair:

• Kevin Griffin Kevin Griffin 
• ...
• ...Drummond Reed Drummond Reed 
• Darrell O'Donnell Darrell O'Donnell 
• Henk van Cann Henk van Cann 

Meeting Schedule

Initial formal meeting then asynchronous, meeting as needed to gain consensuswork is intended to be asynchronous using this wiki and GitHub Discussions and Issues. Zoom meetings will be called as needed.

Meeting Agendas and Notes

TBD

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

As a Task Force (TF) of the Technology Stack WG (TSWG), the STTF inherits the IPR terms from the TSWG JDF Charter.

• Copyright mode: OWFa 1.0 (available at https://www.openwebfoundation.org/the-agreements/the-owf-1-0-agreements-granted-claims/owfa-1-0)
• Patent mode: OWFa 1.0 (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)

Mailing List and Communications

This task force uses the following for communications

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