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2025-10-15 GATF Meeting Notes - Americas

2025-10-15 GATF Meeting Notes - Americas

This TF schedules meetings as needed. Each meeting will be announced on the GSWG mailing list and the #governance-architecture-tf Slack channel.

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Attendees

@John Phillips

@Neil Thomson

Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)

Time

Agenda Item

Lead

Notes

3 min

  • Start recording

  • Welcome & antitrust notice

  • New member introductions

  • 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.

2 min

Review of previous action items

Chairs

 

 

Topic #1

 

 

 

Topic #2

 

 

 

Topic #3

 

 

 

Topic #4

 

 

5 mins

  • Review decisions/action items

  • Planning for next meeting 

Chairs

 

Summary of meeting:

John and Neil discussed Neil's work on data profiles and categorization challenges, particularly in the context of food and dining, while exploring ways to present this information to businesses while maintaining privacy. They examined the complexities of creating ontologies and standards for travel and digital credentials, including discussions about governance frameworks and legal requirements for global initiatives. The conversation concluded with reflections on the role of AI in their work, including its limitations in reasoning and critical evaluation, as well as challenges in communicating digital identity initiatives across different cultural and political contexts.

Previous Decisions and Actions

The following decisions were made and actions were agreed upon in previous meetings. The status has been updated to reflect progress.

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Action Item

Owner

Due Date

Status

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Action Item

Owner

Due Date

Status

A1

Update the ToIP "third generation" diagrams. This involves reversing the arrows for "uses" and "learns from" to align with standard dependency diagram conventions (the "Herman one").

John Phillips

Before Nov Symposium

Done

A2

Propagate the updated diagrams through the relevant ToIP foundational documents, specifically the "explainer deck".

John Phillips / Drummond Reed

Before Nov Symposium

Done

A3

Inform the Discord community about the updates to the diagrams.

John Phillips

After A1 is complete

Done

A4

Share the link to the RFC about IETF time zones with Drummond Reed.

John Phillips

Post-meeting

Done

A5

Share information on "Flipping the Bozo Bit" by Steve McConnell from the book "Code Complete".

Drummond Reed

Post-meeting

Done

Chat notes

00:17:32 John Phillips (Sezoo): Home - EUDI Wallet Consortium
00:32:23 John Phillips (Sezoo): Roko's Basilisk