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2025-07-16 Steering Committee meeting.

2025-07-16 Steering Committee meeting.

Jul 23, 2025

Meeting Schedule

  • July 16, 2025

Agenda 

  1. Approval of KSWG Task Force: SAID URN Task Force.

    1. Purpose: To register a URN for SAID identifiers with IANA.

    2. Meetings: Meeting cadence to be determined

    3. Chair: Carly Huitema

  2.  

    1. See: https://github.com/trustoverip/kswg-said-urn-charter

    2. Steering Committee has approved the Task Force

  3. Symposium date set Oct 15-16 (Wed/Thurs)

    1. Still need to establish a date for event organization.

    2. Will do this in concert with Drummond when he returns next week.

    3. Looking for representation across ToIP WG and TFs

  4.  

    1. Establish a committee to manage event organization

    2. Draft symposium document 

  5. Follow up on previous action items (as posted in slack last week)

  6.  

    1. Action item: @Wenjing Chu will give us a template that we need to fill out. ANNUAL REPORT

    2. Action item: @Scott Perry will fill out the template with our existing material and bring it back to the working groups and steering committee for answers he is unable to answer from our current documentation.

    3. ACTION: Daniela will talk to Henk van Cann about the KERI Foundation becoming an Associate Member of LFDT.

    4. ACTION: Daniella will be putting together a document with Tomaz, to be shared with the steering committee (Symposium outline) - >>see above

    5. TODO: Put these meeting records from Google Docs into the Wiki

Notes

Attendees with Roles:

  • Carly Huitema: University of Guelph (Co-chair)

  • David Boswell: The Linux Foundation (Staff)

  • Scott Perry: Digital Governance Institute (Co-chair)

  • Makki Elfatih: Hkdolts (Steering Committee Member)

  • John Phillips: Sezoo (Steering Committee Member)

  • Daniela Barbosa: The Linux Foundation (Staff)

  • Wenjing Chu: FutureWei (Steering Committee Member)

  • Neil Thomson: QueryVision (Steering Committee Member)

  • Eric Drury: Forth Consulting (Steering Committee Member)

  • Karla McKenna: (Steering Committee Member)

Main Discussion Points:

  • AI Note-Taking: Discussion about the Zoom room having AI note-taking enabled and how to access the generated summary and transcript.

  • Symposium Planning (October 15-16):

    • Confirmation of dates for the Symposium.

    • Discussion on the format, proposing Day 1 for "vision and work in progress" (C-suite targeting) and Day 2 for deeper technical details, demos, and panel discussions, potentially with concurrent breakout sessions.

    • Need for a Symposium organizing committee, bringing in representatives from technology stack and other areas.

    • Call for Presentations (CFP) process, targeting both Trust over IP working groups/members and associated/contributing members.

    • Timeline for CFP release (4 weeks before the event, aiming for early September).

    • Discussion on presentation slot lengths (30 mins or 1 hour chunks) and whether to allow for longer workshops/discussions on Day 2.

    • Leveraging existing templates and resources for presentations.

  • Annual Report to the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC):

    • Review of the current LFDT Project Annual Review template, which is broad and requires interpretation.

    • Discussion on how to measure project health, maintainer diversity, project adoption, and achievement of goals, including quantitative metrics (membership, meeting attendance, GitHub activity, web page stats, specification status, white papers, blogs, presentations, implementations).

    • The challenge of collecting these metrics as a volunteer-run organization and the desire for automated tools.

    • Framing the report as an opportunity to showcase work to a broader community rather than a "tax."

    • Suggestion to link reporting to the existing organizational plan and working group objectives.

  • KERI Foundation as an Associate Member of LF Decentralized Trust:

    • Confusion regarding Hank's response about the KERI Foundation's participation.

    • Clarification that KERI Foundation implements code, while KERI Stack at Trust over IP describes specifications.

    • Need to determine if KERI Foundation members are participating in Trust over IP as KERI Foundation representatives or as individuals from other organizations.

Decisions Made:

  • Approval of KERI Stack Working Group Task Force:

    • Decision: The steering committee approved the creation of the "said urn task force" within the KERI Stack Working Group.

    • Rationale: The task force has a very limited scope: to register a URN for "said identifiers" with IANA, and then it will shut down. The purpose aligns with the KERI standard. The steering committee indicated approval through "thumbs up" and "silence is consent."

Action Items:

  • Accessing AI Meeting Summary:

    • Task: Carly Huitema will figure out how to see the AI-generated meeting summary after the event.

    • Responsible Individual: Carly Huitema

    • Deadline: After today's meeting.

  • Access to Google Form:

    • Task: Carly Huitema will share access to the Google form (for member talks at the symposium) with Daniela Barbosa.

    • Responsible Individual: Carly Huitema

    • Deadline: Not specified, but implied to be soon.

  • Annual Report Template and Data Collection:

    • Task: Wenjing Chu will move the annual report template document to a suitable home within the Trust over IP folder (e.g., "General" or "Communications Committee").

    • Responsible Individual: Wenjing Chu

    • Deadline: Not specified, but implied to be soon.

    • Task: Wenjing Chu will provide a link to the Github resource referenced in the annual report template document.

    • Responsible Individual: Wenjing Chu

    • Deadline: Not specified, but implied to be soon.

    • Task: Carly Huitema will look into getting Youtube stats and other relevant metrics.

    • Responsible Individual: Carly Huitema

    • Deadline: Not specified.

    • Task: David Boswell will assist Wenjing Chu with pulling Zoom account stats and other relevant numbers for the annual report if needed.

    • Responsible Individual: David Boswell

    • Deadline: Not specified.

    • Task: The steering committee will work on collecting existing statistics for the annual report and evaluate whether these are the stats they want to continue collecting and advertising.

    • Responsible Individual: Steering Committee (specifically, members like Carly Huitema, Scott Perry, Wenjing Chu, and other contributors)

    • Deadline: After the first annual report is submitted.

  • KERI Foundation Membership Clarification:

    • Task: Daniela Barbosa will touch base with Hank to clarify the KERI Foundation's participation and contributions within Trust over IP, specifically whether they are participating as KERI Foundation members or as individuals from other organizations.

    • Responsible Individual: Daniela Barbosa

    • Deadline: Not specified, but implied to be soon.

  • Meeting Record Archiving:

    • Task: Carly Huitema will copy the meeting records (including the AI-generated minutes) onto the Confluence Wiki.

    • Responsible Individual: Carly Huitema

    • Deadline: After today's meeting.

  • Symposium Planning (Ongoing):

    • Task: The steering committee will work with Drummond (upon his return) to continue planning the Symposium.

    • Responsible Individual: Steering Committee (with Drummond taking a leading role)

    • Deadline: Ongoing, leading up to October 15-16.

    • Task: Members are encouraged to think about their Symposium contributions (30-minute/1-hour presentations or workshops/discussions on Day 2) and commit with times to help set up the agenda.

    • Responsible Individual: All Trust over IP members and contributors

    • Deadline: Ongoing, leading up to the CFP deadline (early September)