2025-04-01 TSWG Meeting Notes

2025-04-01 TSWG Meeting Notes

Meeting Date and Time

  • Apr 1, 2025 The TSWG holds a plenary meeting once every month on the first Tuesday.

  • There are two editions of the plenary meeting to accommodate global time zones:

    • The NA/EU edition is at 08:00-09:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC.

    • The APAC edition is at 14:00-15:00 PT / 21:00-22:00 UTC.

  • See the ToIP Calendar for all meeting dates, times and logistics, including Zoom links.

  • We will produce one consolidated set of meeting notes for both editions together.

    • Where it is helpful, the notes will indicate which notes were taken in which meeting.

Zoom Meeting Link / Recording

To see the recording of either meeting, click on the calendar entry for the meeting in the ToIP Calendar. The link to the Zoom recording should appear there approximately one hour after the meeting ends.

Attendees

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Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)

Time

Agenda Item

Lead

Notes

3 min

  • Start recording

  • Welcome & antitrust notice

  • Introduction of new members

  • Agenda review

Chairs

  • Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws. Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.

  • New Members:

10 min

General announcements

All

Updates from TSWG members of general interest to the group.

  • Internet Identity Workshop #40 is next week.

2 min

Review of action items from the previous meeting

Chairs

None

20 min

Task Force Reports

TF Chairs

Technology Architecture TF@Wenjing Chu  @Drummond Reed

  • This is still on hold.

  • The deliverable is the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification — Public Review Draft 02.

Trust Registry TF@Andor @Antti Kettunen  @Darrell O'Donnell

  • The goal is to release Trust Registry Query Protocol V2.0 Implementers Draft 02 for IIW.

Trust Spanning Protocol TF@Drummond Reed @Wenjing Chu @Sam Smith 

  • Currently at Implementers Draft 01. Processing issues towards producing Implementers Draft 02 in May.

AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF@Wenjing Chu 

  • They are working on a blog post about how called Trust Spanning Protocol: Strengthening Trust in AI Interactions.

    • Jeff Braswell asked what the goal of post is. @Steven Milstein explained that the TSP is able to show the provenance of the transmittal of the AI content.

  • The TF is also producing a paper about Agentic AI.

High Assurance VIDs TF — @Alex Tweeddale @Scott Perry @mathieu @Andre Kudra @Drummond Reed

  • It is making excellent progress on the HAVID specification that will specify how to bridge DIDs, DNS names, and X.509 certificates. First Implementers Draft is likely in May.

DID SCID TF@Drummond Reed @Markus Sabadello

  • Proceeding very nicely and planning a demo of live resolution at IIW.

  • Likely first Implementers Draft in May.

5 min

Blog post on TRQP V2.0 Implementers Draft 02

@Drummond Reed

@Andor Kesselman

@Darrell O'Donnell

The draft blog post is here. We plan to have this finished by our TRQP meeting on Thursday.

@Eric Drury has arranged the right channel with LFDT.

5 min

Update on Spec-Up-T glossary management tooling

@Drummond Reed

Good news — this tooling is nearing completion in the Concepts and Terminology Working Group.

Spec-Up-T is open source and will be available to anyone. It is a lighter-weight version of a specification editing tool like Respec from W3C.

10 min

Prep for Internet Identity Workshop #40

All

Discussion of sessions TSWG members plan to hold.

  • @Scott Perry is planning to present the C2PA Conformance Program, which includes identity elements.

  • @Scott Perry also plans to present a session on the Governance Driven Trust Registries.

  • @Wenjing Chu will be doing a session on the progress of TSP (and potentially the AI paper).

  • @Andor Kesselman and @Drummond Reed will do a session on the TRQP and Ayra.

  • @Drummond Reed and Wendy Seltzer will hold a session on First Person credentials.



ToIP Demo Day

@Eric Drury

Eric explained that the ToIP Steering Committee is planning on doing a Demo Day (what the LF often calls a Technical Summit) sometime this fall. This is where we can showcase the various deliverables from ToIP Working Groups. So we should begin thinking about what TSWG deliverables we want to showcase at that event. More info will be provided in future meetings.

5 min

  • Review decisions/action items

  • Planning for next meeting 

Chairs



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Decisions

Sample Decision Item

Action Items

ACTION: @Drummond Reed to add 45 day exclusion policy.
ACTION: @Drummond Reed to update the Steering Committee Questionnaire.