2023-11-01 TSPTF Meeting Notes
Meeting Date & Time
This Task Force meets every Wednesday. There are two meetings to serve different time zones:
- NA/EU meeting: 08:00-09:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC
- APAC meeting: 18:00-19:00 PT / 01:00-02:00 UTC
See the Calendar of ToIP Meetings for exact meeting dates, times and Zoom links.
Zoom Meeting Recordings
- NA/EU Meeting: https://zoom.us/rec/share/06ksMB9UCjs3wflARjmXIQ_93KBAP1oFU469NBTuajU5BiVjxetLCvabrKfQcuD5.uirpPWOGKNipaySo
- APAC Meeting: https://zoom.us/rec/share/Da2XF7JUMyqelai9503Gr7bJrMiXe3U-11OOiCkW5oXA7euzzZuqMPlKb_Nrl0Zs.3Dme1KAQJMmMBbr5
Attendees
NA/EU:
- Drummond Reed
- Wenjing Chu
- Sam Smith
- Darrell O'Donnell
- Antti Kettunen
- Tim Bouma
- Christine Martin
- Daniel Bachenheimer
- Judith Fleenor
- Lance Byrd
- mathieu
- Neil Thomson
- Oskar van Deventer
- Rodolfo Miranda
- Steve McCown
- Viky Manaila
- Willem de Kok
- Jesse Carter
APAC:
Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)
Time | Agenda Item | Lead | Notes |
3 min |
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2 min | Review of previous action items | Leads |
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5 mins | X.509 VID Task Force Report | Drummond Reed | Drummond will report on his lunch with Eric Scouten, Senior Engineering Manager on Adobe's Content Authenticity Initiative, to discuss forming the X.509 VID Task Force. Also note this event to which Eric is inviting members of the ToIP community: CAI Symposium 2023, Thursday 07 December, Stanford University. APAC: Daniel Bachenheimer mentioned that the idea of applying CAI to biometrics such as headshots as one form of protection against fakes. Jo Spencer pointed out the Leica camera post about the first camera that produces a C2PA aligned credential:
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10 mins | AI Report | This week President Biden issued the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. It includes this directive:
Wenjing will provide some perspective as chair of our AI & Metaverse Task Force. He agreed that content authenticity is a critical piece of the puzzle and is the "low hanging fruit" for hooking into what we do. He pointed out that the LF C2PA (Linux Foundation Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA.org) project) produces the standards that the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) implements. He clarified that there are different approaches to content authenticity for different media types. He recommended that if we have specific ways that the ToIP stack can be applied to providing content authenticity, we should focus on those as there is high demand for working solutions. He recommends joining the AI & Metaverse Task Force to discuss where we can put ToIP to work on this problem space. For anyone who has not seen how the CAI logo works, watch this: https://contentcredentials.org/. Kyle Robinson made the point that AI content can still be "authentic". Sam Smith shared https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23940626/artificial-intelligence-ai-digital-watermarks-biden-executive-order and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.00076.pdf about how easy it is to defeat watermarking content. The only proof of authenticity that will work is strong digital signatures. Jim StClair said that the Executive Order follows several years of NIST working on AI risk management. So this is rushed out. Drummond Reed observed that overall, the rapidly growing industry concern about the impact of AI on cybersecurity and cyberfraud is very significantly increasing interest in ToIP and our solutions. So we need to move as quickly as possible to take advantage of this. APAC: Eric Drury confirmed that in Asia, it is also a massive problem due to all the scams and the fact that Southeast Asia is a major source of those businesses. Eric added: "These guys are also working on content authenticity and provenance: Jo Spencer affirmed the same thing in Australia. He presented at the Scam Summit in August on how verifiable credentials can help. Payment systems in particular need the help. Daniel Bachenheimer confirmed the same from Accenture customers. The demand for authenticity is only growing. Eric Drury said that there is a call to lock down the archives now, or they will get "polluted" in a way that will make it very hard to verify in the future. https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-services-content/to-protect-future-newsrooms-from-ai-fakery-we-must-first-protect-the-past/ Jo Spencer pointed out that the long-term storage of data that is signed is an issue because of key rotation and storage. Drummond Reed used the analogy of building a civilization with wood and nails, which works fine for small scale and early development, but for serious larger scale civilization, you need concrete and steel. That's the migration we need to go through here from centralized and federated identity and trust systems to the full-strength decentralized digital trust infrastructure that we are building with ToIP. | |
35 mins | Working Draft Review | Wenjing Chu | Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP) - Google Docs Wenjing went over new sections on the Routing model. See screenshots #1 thru #4 below. We agreed that we will continue the review of that major section on next week's call. |
5 mins |
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Screenshots/Diagrams (numbered for reference in notes above)
#1
#2
#3
#4
Decisions
- None
Action Items
- ACTION: Wenjing Chu will add a section to the Working Draft for a simple multicast protocol.