Mission

The mission of the TSWG Technology Architecture Task Force (TATF) is to draft a ToIP specification that defines the overall technical requirements for the four layers of the ToIP stack. This TF will be specifically focused on adapting the original public document defining the ToIP stack. Note: this specification is intended to serve as a direct a counterpart to the ToIP Governance Architecture Specification deliverable from the GSWG Governance Architecture TF.

Deliverables

The deliverable of this Task Force is the ToIP Technical Architecture Specification—a specification of the overall architectural requirements for each of the four layers of the ToIP stack and how they are abstracted from the layer below. It is anticipated that this specification will lay the overarching foundation for four more future ToIP specifications—one for each layer of the stack—that will specify detailed interoperability requirements for each layer.

Note: this deliverable is initially being drafted using a Google doc to simplify collaboration. Once a full Working Draft is ready, it will be converted into a Markdown document in the ToIP GitHub.

Leads

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

Darrell O'Donnell
Drummond Reed, Evernym
Wenjing Chu, Futurewei

Membership and Joining

Prior to participating in the meetings please ensure that you are a member of the Trust Over IP Foundation. Contributor level membership is available to anyone at no cost. Details can be found at this link.

To join this TF, add your name to this list:

Drummond Reed Evernym
Scott Whitmire Mayo Clinic
Rohan Pinto 1Kosmos Inc.,
Vinod Panicker Wipro Ltd
Wenjing Chu Futurewei
Xinxin Fan IoTeX
Darrell O'Donnell Continuum Loop Inc.
Steve McCown Anonyome Labs
sankarshan Dhiway Networks
Jo Spencer 460degrees/Sezoo
Daniel Bachenheimer Accenture
Antti Kettunen
thomsona Avast

Meeting Schedule

This TF currently holds two meetings on Thursday every week (see past Meeting Notes on the Meeting Page):

NA/EU meeting: 07:00-08:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC
APAC meeting: 13:00-14:00 PT / 21:00-22:00 UTC

Meetings are announced on the ToIP Slack channel #tswg-tech-arch-tf. Please join us there.

Milestones

Key milestones will include, but are not limited to:

ToIP Technical Architecture Specification
1. First Draft — 15 March 2021
2. Public Review Draft — 31 March 2021
3. Final Draft — 30 April 2021

Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)

As a Task Force (TF) of the Governance Stack WG (GSWG), the GATF inherits the IPR terms from the GSWG JDF Charter. These include:

Copyright mode: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Patent mode: W3C Mode (based on the W3C Patent Policy).
Source code: Apache 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html. The GSWG TA TF is not expected to produce source code.

Mailing List and Communications

This task force uses the following for communications

Mailing List: This TF will most likely not need its own mailing list.
Slack: This TF will have its own dedicated Slack channel if there is enough demand.