2025-02-19 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

Attendance

Steering Committee Members Attending and Participating 

• Keren Leung, Certizen

• Alex Tweeddale, cheqd

• Steven Milstein, Collab Ventures

• Scott Perry, Digital Governance Institute

• Eric Drury, Forth.IO

• Wenjing Chu, Futurewei

• Drummond Reed, Gen Digital

• Caryn Van Exel, GS1

• Nicholas Rasz, Keystate Capital

• Neil Thomson, Query Vision

• John Phillips, Sezoo

• Carly Huitema, University of Guelph

Also Participating

• Daniela Barbosa (LFDT Executive Director)

• Michelle Janata (LF PM)

• David Boswell (LF)

Agenda 

• Recording

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Call to Order

Drummond Reed called the meeting to order at approx. 14:05 pm PT and announced the meeting would be recorded. There were no objections.

Antitrust Policy Notice

Drummond Reed reminded the Steering Committee of the Antitrust Policy. 

Agenda

Drummond Reed introduced the agenda. No additional topics were added.

1. IIW Discount — http://www.eventbrite.com/e/1104504204809/?discount=TOIP_XL_20

2. LFX Updates

   1. Tip on subscribing to meetings — Michelle

   2. Zoom meeting notetaker — offer to WGs and TFs

      • Needs to be requested on a per-meeting basis

      • Send the request to mjanata@linuxfoundation.org 

3. LFDT Speaker’s Bureau (see below) — Carly

4. New JDF Charter Review — Michelle & Drummond

   1. Added the new KERI Suite WG

   2. ACTION: Michelle to send the new charter with a 7 day review process; if no objections or comments, it will be approved and Michelle will upload it.

5. ToIP Org Business Plan — Scott

   1. John Phillips: we should update our wiki pages with the outcomes from this work

   2. Setting up a dedicated meeting open to SC members

   3. ACTION: All SC members to review

   4. ACTION: Scott and Carly to send out the bizplan questionnaire to all SC members.

6. Web of Trust Map — Niko

   1. Four years in development; to be released publicly this spring

7. Joint Participation Agreement with DIF — Drummond

   1. Creator Assertions Working Group (CAWG) Charter

   2. Creator Assertions Working Group (CAWG) Operating Addendum

   3. Scott suggested that there should be 3 co-chairs, and he would like volunteers to be one of the co-chairs

   4. AlexT mentioned that the CAWG spec is currently at version 1.1, and he is currently working on a v1.2 to add more support for DIDs and decentralized signing of identity assertions.

   5. ACTION: Scott to facilitate a discussion with Eric Scouten about introducing this new CAWG to ToIP and to select co-chairs, plus provide the feedback that one of the agenda items for this new WG should be the topic that the AI and Metaverse TF has been discussing about using CAWG with TSP to support content authenticity with transport authenticity.

8. All-Members Meetings

   1. Make them quarterly — in the month of the quarter end

      • They can also communicate about our progress on the business plan

      • John also suggested that we can do parallel sessions to get more content available

   2. Have them focus on WG updates and ToIP-wide announcements

   3. Use the EGWG bi-weekly meetings for all ToIP Member-wide talks.

      • This would include a series of “Working Group Highlight” talks (or “Task Force Highlight” talks)

9. TIME PERMITTING

   1. ToIP 5 Year Anniversary Event Planning – It was agreed to schedule quarterly meetings, with the first one in March. These meetings will be used to discuss updates to the business plan and will be recorded for those unable to attend. Also in consider is hosting a public meeting in May to celebrate the 5-year anniversary and share updates from recent conferences.

   2. EGWG proposal for Bite-Sized Trust — 3 min videos — Carly

      • Look at LFDT YouTube page for examples

      • We can set up some time with Ben Thomas

      • LFDT project services  (as this point consider ToIP ‘graduated’)

   3. Digital Energy Grid - ToIP (Eric Drury) was invited to launch of vision paper.

      • We should decide how we can support this effort.

   4. ISO/IEC reach out by Johann AMSENGA- Convenor: WG 13 (Trustworthiness) wanting to come present collaboration - — Daniela

      • ISO/IEC 2nd WD 31303, Trustworthiness - Overview and concepts

      • ISO/IEC PWI 18149, Trustworthiness - Ontology

      • ACTION: Drummond and Carly to let Daniela know about the next meeting.

   5. Do we want/need to add licensing statements to content such as the ToIP 3rd generation graphics? (something like CC BY SA 4.0 for example)

      • JohnP asked about the best way to apply our licensing.

      • ACTION: John P to figure out where to apply that in the short term.

LF Trust Speakers Bureau

The LF Decentralized Trust Speakers Bureau offers member companies the opportunity to represent LF Decentralized Trust at conferences, meetups, and virtual events. By leveraging our global community, LF Decentralized Trust aims to educate audiences and provide thought leadership at a variety of events—whether industry-focused, technical, or otherwise.

It would be great to include more members and technical leaders from the ToIP community so we encourage those who are interested to apply here.

Next Meeting:

March 19, 2025

14:00 PDT / 17:00 EST / 21:00 UTC

Adjournment

At approximately 15:32 PT, Drummond Reed adjourned the meeting.