Any news and updates of general interest to CTWG members

• Neil Thomson shared a GSWG conversation about how issuers and trust registries are related.
  
  • A trust registry is a qualified object list. 
  • The qualifying authority for a trust registry is a registrar. 
  • Neil's point is that the jobs of qualifying authorities, from a governance standpoint, are similar for an issuer and a trust registry.
  • Rieks Joosten agreed. He said it reminds him of a data exchange project in the EU, where similar decisions need to be made about registries of semantic data, such as schemas, and also product offerings, identity services, and other related services. All of these services share three things:
    
    1. First, a provider of the service needs to provision and operate the service at runtime.
    2. Secondly, there is a management layer that applies the governance policies under which the service operates.
    3. Thirdly, there is the governance layer that establishes the policies.
  • Rieks felt this was a good model that could be defined by the Governance Stack. He made the analogy to how CAs (certificate authorities) operate in conventional PKI. It is a good scaffolding for registries of all kinds.
  • Neil agreed that governance and operations are different roles, and whether the same party performs them or not is a matter of choice.

Brian Richter Rieks Joosten 

• TNO is looking to develop tools for the TEv2 toolbox in TypeScript. The TRRT had some setbacks, but we expect it te be fully working at the end of this month. Progress can be followed in the TRRT-repo.
• TNO is planning on a template repo that other tool developers can use to make other tools (in TypeScript), and that can be documented using the TEv2 tools (when they're up and running).
• TNO is gathering the tools in the tno-terminology-design github organizaion. That's where the specs and methods have moved to from eSSIF-Lab.
• Brian Richter hasn't been doing a lot - too busy. THe ingress tools have been progressing, the rest is still tbd. It might be a good idea to create HRGT-tools in the TNO repo, using the templates, and reusing parts of the TRRT code. 
• the MRGT (in Java) is giving some operational problems. It seems appropriate to leave it as it is, as TNO expects a TypeScrypt version to become a available in Q4 of this year.

On 2023-07-11 in the ToIP Slack, Henk posted this update:

In the KERI meeting today we voted for the move of our “source of terms truth” known as the ACDC-wiki: it’s going to be WOT-terms wiki: https://github.com/WebOfTrust/WOT-terms/wiki from todayWe will still be able to sync between the glossaries at
ToIP user acdc repo and WebofTrust WOT-terms repo.

The reason for the move is a practical one: more control over our own data and functionality while maintaining the symbiotic properties between ToIP and WoT. More info and acknowledgements in KERISSE section how we did.

The most recent update of the glossary in ToIP format can now be found here but will most probably also be hosted from ToIP github space (here) soon.