2025-12-09 TSWG Meeting Notes

2025-12-09 TSWG Meeting Notes

Meeting Date and Time

  • Apr 1, 2025 The TSWG holds a plenary meeting once every month on the first Tuesday.

  • There are two editions of the plenary meeting to accommodate global time zones:

    • The NA/EU edition is at 08:00-09:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC.

    • The APAC edition is at 14:00-15:00 PT / 21:00-22:00 UTC.

  • See the ToIP Calendar for all meeting dates, times and logistics, including Zoom links.

  • We will produce one consolidated set of meeting notes for both editions together.

    • Where it is helpful, the notes will indicate which notes were taken in which meeting.

Zoom Meeting Link / Recording

To see the recording of either meeting, click on the calendar entry for the meeting in the ToIP Calendar. The link to the Zoom recording should appear there approximately one hour after the meeting ends.

Attendees

@Scott Perry

@Carly Huitema

@Darrell O'Donnell

@Makki Elfatih

@Daniel Bachenheimer

@Drummond Reed

@sankarshan

@Eric Scouten

Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)

Time

Agenda Item

Lead

Notes

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.

  • In addition to the licensing terms of this Working Group’s JDF charter, this Working Group operates under the official policy that any Working Group Participant who makes a contribution to a Draft Deliverable shall have a maximum of 45 days from the date of that contribution to exclude any Essential Claims pertaining to that contribution.

  • New Members:

10 min

General announcements

All

Updates from TSWG members of general interest to the group.

  • REMINDER that the ToIP Q4 All-Members meeting and virtual holiday party is at 1PM PT / 21:00 UTC on Wednesday Dec 10.

2 min

Review of action items from the previous meeting

Chairs

None

30 min

Task Force Reports

TF Chairs

Technology Architecture TF@Wenjing Chu  @Drummond Reed

  • Now in the queue to be ready for the new 2026 ToIP website!

Trust Registry TF@Andor @Antti Kettunen  @Darrell O'Donnell

  • Trust Registry Query Protocol (TRQP) V2.0 going into Public Review 02. Simplified structure. The LFDT blog post about the review period should be posted soon.

  • Room for new Co-Chairs going forward.

Trust Spanning Protocol TF@Drummond Reed @Wenjing Chu @Sam Smith 

  • Wenjing has been talks about using MCP and A2A over TSP.

AI and huMan Trust (AIM) TF@Wenjing Chu 

  • @Neil Thomson reported that there are many groups looking at AI agents and interactions. Reassessing early in the New Year, they will reassess what the 2026 deliverables will be.

High Assurance VIDs TF — @Alex Tweeddale @Scott Perry @mathieu @Andre Kudra @Drummond Reed

  • Currently work on this spec is largely stalled. We need to check with @Alex Tweeddale as to whether the TF should be suspended until there is demand.

ACTION: @Drummond Reed to check with @Alex Tweeddale about whether the HAVID TF should continue or go into hibernation.

DID SCID TF@Drummond Reed @Markus Sabadello

  • We continue to get excellent feedback and now have a second implementation (in Rust). The plan is to take the spec through the DIF DID Methods WG recommendation process once the DID methods for different DID SCID formats have gone through the process.

  • The W3C CCG just announced a new DID method call did:cel. The specification is here: Cryptographic Event Log v0.1.

  • @Carly Huitema suggested that it would be helpful to put together a DID method red-teaming exercise.

10 min

TRQP V2.0 Public Review

@Darrell O'Donnell

Any further discussion of the public review process.

ACTION: When the LFDT blog post about the TRQP V2.0 Public Review is ready, @Darrell O'Donnell will send an email to the full ToIP All-Members mailing list.

ACTION: @Drummond Reed to announce the TRQP V2.0 Public Review at the ToIP All-Member meeting on Wednesday 10 December 2025.

5 min

  • Review decisions/action items

  • Planning for next meeting 

Chairs

 

Decisions

None.

Action Items

ACTION: @Drummond Reed to check with @Alex Tweeddale about whether the HAVID TF should continue or go into hibernation.
ACTION: When the LFDT blog post about the TRQP V2.0 Public Review is ready, @Darrell O'Donnell will send an email to the full ToIP All-Members mailing list.
ACTION: @Drummond Reed to announce the TRQP V2.0 Public Review at the ToIP All-Member meeting on Wednesday 10 December 2025.