2021-06-07 CTWG Meeting Notes

Meeting Date

• 07 Jun 2021 

Attendees

• Drummond Reed
• Rieks Joosten
• Daniel Hardman
• @Sc
• FoFoteinos Mergroupis-Anagnou (GRNET)

Main Goal of this Meeting:

To discuss how we could begin using the GitHub wiki functionality ASAP and also how we might incorporate it into our ToIP Term tool specification and bounty work.

Agenda 

Recording

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Presentation(s)

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Documents

• File 1 - link

Notes

1. New members
2. Review Riek's paper on Terminology and the Resolution of Related Issues - Rieks Joosten
   1. This paper started with ISO 27001 work on information security architecture and its glossary
   2. The purpose of terminology is an attempt to enable people to understand what other people actually mean—and to demonstrate that understanding
   3. It proposes practical, utilitarian tests for good terminology
   4. This underscores the purpose of "scopes"
   5. Quoting from the paper: "A Definition for ‘Definition"

      This leads us to propose that the phrase ‘definition (of a term)’ be used in scopes/contexts where it is an objective to realize the effects we described earlier, to refer to a specification of:

      • -  a scope, i.e. the context(s) within which the definition of that term is applicable. This includes or implies, implicitly or explicitly, that objectives exist that are pursued within that scope by one or more people (stakeholders);

      • -  a (set of) criteria, that stakeholders will use for judging whether or not something is an instance of the term;

      • -  a term, i.e. one or more words (e.g. ‘definition (of a term)’) that stakeholders can use within the scope to refer the things that satisfy the criteria.

        A definition qualifies as ‘good’ if and only if it has the following properties:

      • -  its criteria are well-formed, meaning that all stakeholders make the same judgements

        c.q. reach the same conclusions when using these criteria in a given situation;

      • -  it is relevant, i.e. stakeholders have identified cases that demonstrate how the use of

        this term helps them realize their objectives and/or address issues that prevent them from doing so, or they have agreed that relevance is obvious.

   6. What is important is not the term itself, but how it actually distinguishes from entities that are NOT described by the term
   7. The article includes a short glossary about the terms Rieks recommends using for defining terminology itself.
   8. Rieks will provide a link for the notes.
   9. Rieks also introduced the idea that this could be a ToIP white paper if the group is interested.
3. Discuss collaboration with the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group on V3 of the Sovrin Glossary
   1. Also: how to ingest/integrate the Good Health Pass Glossary?
4. Discuss the use of the GitHub wiki capability for our proposed wiki "front-end"
5. Review of Decisions and Action Items and planning for next meeting

Slides

#1 — 

Decisions

• Sample Decision Item

Action Items

• Sample Action Item