2023-02-08 Steering Committee Plenary Meeting Notes

Agenda 

Attendance

• Judith Fleenor (ToIP - Director of Strategic Engagement)
• Abbie Barbir
• Mike Vesey
• Drummond Reed
• John Jordan
• Alan Ngai
• Andre Kudra
• Cathy Fankhauser
• Daniel Bachenheimer
• HJ Hwang
• Scott Perry
• Shermineh Salehiesmati
• Bryn Robinson-Morgan
• Steve McCown
• Wenjing Chu
• Michelle Janata (Linux Foundation)

• Recording

Link

• Presentation (Google Slides)

Notes

Agenda Review 

Judith Fleenor kicked off the meeting and presented to agenda and the anti trust policy.

Call to Order
Judith Fleenor called the meeting to order at approx. 12:04 and announced the meeting would be recorded and took the official minutes.There were no objections.

Antitrust Policy Notice
Judith Fleenor reminded the Steering Committee of the Antitrust Policy.

Agenda
Judith Fleenor introduced the agenda. No additional topics were added. Judith Fleenor confirmed that the Steering Committee members received and reviewed the December meeting minutes

and called to approve the minutes.

Approval of Minutes

Judith Fleenor presented a resolution to approve the minutes from the previous Steering Committee meeting (Exhibit A) January 11, 2023 and solicited questions from the group.

There were no questions or objections. 

Judith Fleenor indicated that consensus had been reached and the following resolution was approved: 

RESOLVED: That the minutes of the January 11, 2023 meeting of the Steering Committee, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, are hereby confirmed, approved, and adopted.

New Member Review

New Contributor Members who have joined Trust overIP since the last update:

Kycor LTD

W.W. Grainger, Inc

projectInnernet

Novabit

EOS S.R.L

ThroughIdentity

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

gluetech Solutions Inc.

VirtualPerson.com

Canadian Internet Registration Authority

Credentive Security

Tomi.com

Encodible LLC

The Membership Docusign is being updated with Judith’s name removing Wenjing’s. Previously John Jordan delegated his signing rights to Wenjing on behalf of Trust over IP. Now that Judith is the Executive Director there is no requirement to have this officially voted on as Judith has signing rights as the ED. Judith asked if there are any objections, hearing none, Judith will be the official signer on behalf of ToIP on the membership agreements.

Lost Member Update

Judith Fleenor  announces that we have received notice from a couple of members that they will not be continuing their membership in 2023. Judith has invited the members to today’s meeting to say their goodbyes to the Steering Committee and give an update on where they are going.

HJ Hwang represented LG CNS to give her final goodbyes to the group. Ms. Hwang thanked the group for the opportunity to attend today. Ms. Hwang explained that due to the replacement of their CEO, they had to review the internal net and activities encoding of management strategy. As a result, the full-scale investment and the external association fee were reduced. Ms. Hwang concluded by wishing everyone all the best.

Judith wishes HJ Hwang all the best and lets Ms. Hwang know that even through they are no longer steering committee members that her colleagues are always welcome to join as Contributor members of ToIP.

ID Ramp, Mike Vesey, explains to the group the reason behind their departure.  As they are a victim of their own success. Mike has worked really hard to try and get the company rolling, and for the last 6 months he has been absolutely buried. The organization is far too dear to him to take a passive role. ID Ramp has decided step down focus on their opportunities and what lie ahead. ID Ramp will be focusing their budgets toward the marketing efforts that need to be done. Mike states that they will be back in in front of you guys again. This is not goodbye. Just taking a little break, and he hopes that they can be active promoters of everything that this group is doing, and in the foundation as it is unbelievable work. Mike thanks the group.

Judith wishes Mike all the best and extends the invitation that the opportunity will always be there to come back as a steering committee member.

Steering Committee member-bring New SC Members

Judith explains to the group that she calls this her new plan for the New Year to bring people in is the steering committee bring friend program. She would really like to see happen over the next couple of months. The plan is to have each steering come in, committee member work with Judith to bring in one new steering committee member. That is somebody, you know that you think should be involved at the work at trust over IP. If we get the right people, the architect from Xyz Company, or the best contact, and get them engaged. What Judith wants to do, get your recommendation for people you know who would be a good fit for ToIP. Judith will then set up a 1:1 with each of you to make a plan, have content to have the right conversations to bring new members into Trust over IP.

1. What is going to be of interest to the potential member so that the conversation/presentation can be tailored to each new potential new member and what will benefit them being a member of ToIP.

Action Item for the Group: Judith would like each of you to think about who, what organization would you want to help bring into the organization? It will be your contacts, your conversations because it will be peer to peer.

Judith will be reaching out to each of you in the next couple of weeks to set up a one on one conversation, so we can each tackle it.

Open Wallet Foundation Associate Sponsorship - discussion (15 min)

Does ToIP want to become an Associate Sponsor of the Open Wallet Foundation?

Judith Fleenor opens the discussion with membership in Open Wallet Foundation and what she has found out since the last discussion.

Judith explains to the group that she had a conversation with Mike Dolan and he explained that if a project wants to associate with another project within LF, we put their logo in the Associate sponsor section, but there's no official form joining of LF that needs to happen. Judith has confirmed this with Daniella. This means for us to be associated there are 3 documents that have to get done. If you join as an associate sponsor 1. joining the EU LF  2. joining open wallet foundation. 3. Requirement is a Google form that goes straight to open wallet. If we want to associate, then we would be a part of the February 23rd release and we would have an opportunity to be in their PR, to have a quote from Judith or from John stating why the Open Wallet Foundation is important to ToIP. Judith asks the group given this new information does Trust over IP want to become a member of Open Wallet Foundation? The consensus of the group is to join Open Wallet Foundation. No objections were voiced.

Resolution: We have consensus that we will join the open wallet foundation. Hearing no objections, it is agreement that ToIP will join the Open Wallet Foundation.

Action Item: Judith Fleenor will move forward in filling out the paperwork to join the Open Wallet Foundation.

Action Item: Judith Fleenor will be creating the quote for the Friday Communications Committee meeting. The Communication Committee will work on the quote, and will make sure it gets there by the due date.

Trademark Registration(s) (5 min)

Judith details where we are with Trademark registration:

We filed for US Trademark, last year. 
They will most likely review in sometime this summer.

There will be downstream expenses of $1-3K to complete the US process.
At the time we filed the US, we decided to wait to file for other countries until later, thus being able to reference it to the US registration.  We now have until May to file for other countries.
Cost: UK and Canada would be about $2000–$2500 each. Cost: EU is estimated at $4500.

Plus, downstream expenses of about $1-1.5K each in 12-24 months, longer in Canada.

Our 2023 budget we put $10,000 for trademark expenses.

It is agreed by the group that ToIP should file for Trademark in the EU and hold off on UK and Canada for now.

Action Item: Judith will go ahead and tell the Trademark lawyer move forward with filing in the EU. Judith will then ask the question of what the advantages of doing if we did do Canada now, or UK now or if there's an advantage of doing it before May versus doing it later. What that actual advantage is.

Steering Committee Testimonials (10 min)

Judith presents to the group that the communications Committee is working on a plan to have each Steering Committee Member create a record Testimonial of why ToIP is important to you and your organization. Judith then presents the recording that Scott Perry put together along with his company Schellman. Sample from Scott Perry, Schellman      https://schellman.wistia.com/medias/f9i6liu8x0

Judith would like to see each steering committee member that is able to do so put something like this together that ties to something that's important to your organization. But it still needs to be personal to you. Why is being on the steering committee important to you? Why trust over IP is important to you, and then we will add these onto our web page in some way. At this point there's no action item.

Please research what professional recording capabilities your organization may have to assist you in the creation of you video.

It is understood that not all members will be able to produce such a video on behalf of their company.

Discussion Meeting upcoming topics & other meetings

February 22nd- speaker Daniel Bachenheimer
NIST 800-63.4 – Is in the comment period for the NIST standard. March 24th is the deadline.
Steering committee will need to discuss and respond.  https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/01/digital-identity-guidelines-kicking-revision-4

March 22nd - speaker Viky Manaila
A briefing from an expert Viky Manaila from the Intesi Group on the European Digital Identity Wallet reference Architecture framework when it is published. (Most likely to be published by our second Discussion meeting of the year)

Working Group Updates format

March, Liz Tanner, Commerce Secretary for the state of Rhode Island, discussing their decentralized identity pilot and lessons learned.

April, to be Cancelled - week of IIW

May, scheduled for May 17th, the week after EIC and OSS North America. 
Judith Fleenor plans to be on vacation that week.  She will need someone to volunteer to lead the May All Members Meeting.

Adjournment 

At approximately 13:02 PT, Judith Fleenor adjourned the meeting.

Actions:

Action Item: Judith Fleenor will move forward in filling out the paperwork to join the Open Wallet Foundation.

Action Item: Judith Fleenor will be creating the quote for the Friday Communications Committee meeting. The Communication Committee will work on the quote, and will make sure it gets there by the due date.