2023-01-04 TSWG Meeting Notes

Meeting Date

  • The TSWG holds a plenary meeting once every four weeks on Wednesdays at 08:00-09:00 PT / 16:00-17:00 UTC. See the ToIP Calendar for all meeting dates, times and logistics, including Zoom links.

Zoom Meeting Link / Recording

Attendees

Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)

TimeAgenda ItemLeadNotes
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: none.
7 minGeneral announcementsAll

Updates from TSWG members of general interest to the group.

  • Judith Fleenor wants to get the pulse of the ToIP community about whether we can/should participate in a major way in a conference on "Digital Trust" the two days prior (May 8-9th) to the LF Open Source Summit North American (May 10-12 in Vancouver: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/).
    • The challenge is that the timing is the same time as the European Identity Conference in Berlin, at which ToIP had a strong contingent and a successful panel in 2022, and is planning to submit at least one new panel proposal for this year.
    • The Open Source Summit attendees would be primarily developers.
    • In our discussion, we were concerned about the time it would take to prepare, the amount of coordination that will be necessary between the four participating LF orgs (ToIP, DIF, Hyperledger, OWF).
    • Another option is to hold the Digital Trust conference as part of the LF Europe Open Source Summit in September in Spain.
5 minNew co-chairs and vice chairsAll

To start the new year, we want to see who wishes to step up into leadership positions in the TSWG.

  • Drummond Reed has volunteered to join Darrell O'Donnell as co-chair.
  • Any other co-chair volunteers?
  • Any vice chair volunteers?
  • Darrell noted that Antti Kettunen has mentioned interest in being a vice-chair.
  • Daniel Bachenheimer is interested in being a vice-chair to help with some of the administration and coordination tasks.
  • Judith suggested we also seek volunteers who are also going to be active in OWF.

ACTION: Drummond Reed to send an email to the TSWG mailing list asking for other volunteers to serve as co-chair or vice chairs.

10 minReview of Action Items from the previous meetingChairs
10 minProposal for new Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF)Drummond Reed 

See this proposed charter for the Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF).

Drummond drafted this proposed ToIP blog post (link to ToIP Google Drive that should be available to all ToIP members) providing the full context for launching the TSPTF.

We had a discussion about multi-stakeholder collaboration on the formation.

ACTION: Daniel Bachenheimer to review this proposed ToIP blog post providing the full context for launching the Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF).

ACTION: Drummond Reed to send a link to the blog post to the Communications Committee for expedited review.

DECISION: The TSWG approves the establishment of the Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF).

5 minReview of new meeting scheduleChairs

Our new 2023 meeting schedule:

In the Wednesday 08:00-09:00 PT / 16:00-17:00 UTC slot we will have a four-week cycle.

  1. The TSWG Plenary will meet the first week.
  2. The Technology Architecture Task Force (TATF) will meet the second week.
  3. The new Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF) will meet the third and four weeks.

We will add APAC versions of these meetings as needed.

The Trust Registry Task Force (TRTF) will continue to meet twice (NA/EU and APAC slots) every Thursday.

15 minTask Force ReportsTF Leads

Technology Architecture TFWenjing Chu  Drummond Reed

  • Meetings will restart next week in this same time slot & continue every 4 weeks.
  • Relatively little feedback has been received so far; more is expected once the Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force meetings begin.
  • The main action item is moving forward with the terminology definitions; Drummond Reed and Neil Thomson have this action item.

Trust Registry TF — Darrell O'Donnell Andor Antti Kettunen 

  • This TF will continue to meet on Thursdays (NA/EU at 07:00-8:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC; APAC at 18:00-19:00 PT / 02:00-03:00 UTC).

Trust Spanning Protocol TFDrummond Reed Daniel Hardman

  • The first meeting is in two weeks.
  • Daniel Hardman will be holding a discussion of the need for cross-collaboration on the Trust Spanning Protocol at the next meeting of the DIF DIDComm User Group (open to anyone; IPR-free) on Monday January 9th at 12:00 PT / 20:00 UTC.

ACDC TF — Sam Smith Philip Feairheller 

  • No regular ACDC TF members were able to attend.

ACTION: Drummond Reed to contact Sam Smith and Philip Feairheller to ask them to attend the new schedule of TSWG Plenary meetings to give reports on the ACDC TF.

AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TFWenjing Chu Vikas Malhotra 

  • No regular AIM TF members were able to attend.
5 min
  • Review decisions/action items
  • Planning for next meeting 
Chairs

Decisions

Action Items