2021-03-25 GSWG NA/EU Plenary Meeting Notes

Meeting Date

25 Mar 2021 

Attendees

• David Luchuk

• Drummond Reed
• Scott Perry
• Kalyan Kulkarni
• sankarshan
• Steven Milstein
• Steve Magennis
• Tom Plagge
• Wenjing Chu
• Daniel Bachenheimer
• RJ Reiser
• Eric Drury 
• Victor Syntez

Main Goal of this Meeting:

Share news of the establishment of the Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass and updates on progress of deliverables.

Agenda 

Recording

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Presentation(s)

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Documents

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Notes

1. Welcome
   1. Linux Foundation antitrust policy
      1. updates about the new JDF coming up in 2 weeks
   2. Introduction of new members
      1. mathieu (Northern Block) - a liaison to UFWG
      2. Savita Farooqi (IEEE P2145 - Blockchain Governance) - there are 2 sub-groups (from Thomas Cox - The subgroups of IEEE P2145 are: 1. Interoperability, 2. Lexical standards (nomenclature) 3. Reputation also planning a Maturity Model and a Process Model)
   3. Agenda review
2. News — general community updates relevant to the GSWG
   1. The ToIP Steering Committee has approved a new WG formally called the Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass (note that the wiki page named was shortened to "Good Health Pass WG")
      1. Nine Drafting Groups (DGs) — all open to all ToIP members
      2. One of the nine will be on the Good Health Pass Ecosystem Governance Framework
      3. Multiple DGs will involve GSWG input
         1. Please note email from David Luchuk on all-members list about signing the Charter
         2. Tight deadlines, large scale and a focus on drafting content
   2. CTWG Glossary and Tooling update — Drummond Reed
      1. Agreement has been reached on the way to providing a 'terminology service' (as a shared resource) to enable input and harmonization of terms contributed
   3. DP0034 work - trust and transitivity (from Thomas Cox)
      1. being handled via a Google Doc; to be available in markdown format in the coming 2 weeks (approximately)
   4. TSS0011 work?

3. WG Liaison Reports

   1. Technology Stack WG — Drummond Reed
   2. Utility Stack WG - mathieu
      1. developed 'stories' through information discovery process and document the learning from the discussion with existing Layer 1 projects. Items are in the GItHub repository
      2. best practices for decentralization
   3. Ecosystem Foundry WG — Steve Magennis
      1. Karl Kneis - revisiting the 'stack' to handle representations of Semantics and also HX
4. GSWG Task Force Reports
   1. ToIP Stack Design Principles TF — Victor Syntez& Drummond Reed
      1. Exploring the concepts around 'trust' (wet/dry) in context of modern IT architecture and dualism (inspired from physics) of trust - Victor Syntez suggests review of the content would be a good thing to do
         1. Mary Lacity - We define trust as the degree to which X trusts Y in regards to Z. Trust (X:Y:Z) X may be an individual, organization, or collective; Y may be an individual, organization, or collective; institutional safeguards, or an IT artifact (machine);

            Z may indicate specific types of trust like integrity, accuracy, competency, benevolence, or reliability; or a comprehensive assessment of trust; or a general assessment of trust.

         2. Thomas Cox See also Trust in leadership: A multi-level review and integration C. Shawn Burke
   2. Governance Architecture TF — Drummond Reed
   3. Process and Roles TF — Scott Perry
      1. examining the completeness of this document against the PCTF (Ken Adler (Deactivated) and Tim Bouma are engaged in this)
   4. Trust Assurance TF - Scott Perry
      1. First meeting coming up; already on ToIP Calendar
5. Special topic(s)
   1. sankarshan will be stepping down soon and invites another volunteer as vice chair
6. Planning for Upcoming Meetings
   1. Special Topic
      1. Thomas Cox will be looking at showcasing work at IEEE P2145 across the sub-groups (see above)
         1. needs to be on the calendar
      2. UFWG + GSWG - examine the topics around governance frameworks for Layer 1 utilities
      3. Mary Lacity - Concepts/Definition of Trust (Drummond's suggestion to examine ToIP concepts against this)
   2. Next Plenary
7. Review of Decisions and Action Items
   1. Principles of SSI deliverable - to be approved via the mailing list

Decisions

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Action Items

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