Time

Agenda Item

Lead

Notes

5 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:

5 min

Review of previous action items

Chairs

20 mins

Update on Specification

@Darrell O'Donnell 

Update on actions taken since last meeting on 2026.02.05

• PRs accepted - one outstanding.

  • https://github.com/trustoverip/tswg-trust-registry-protocol/pull/185

• Remaining issues are backlogged for consideration.

• FOCUS: running the gauntlet for SC Approval

  • review committee - at least 3 people (verify)

  • @Darrell O'Donnell is leading this

  • Form has been updated (DOI, permalink)

  • PROCESS

• ASIDE:

  • The SC process document has a (long) thread that is discussing future changes to the process. Likely a SC constitutional-level change.

  • The external world wants to know that the process is transparent and not captured (@Tim Bouma ). Plus produced in best effort and good faith. Review committee needs at least three people:

    • SC

    • Involved in Work

    • somebody not directly involved (passing familiarity)

  • Notional: Drummond (SC), Dan B (external), Eric Drury, Tim Bouma, and Darrell (knee deep) (once Darrell convinces Eric)

  • To be PUBLISHED in the ToIP Wiki

10 mins

Meeting Cadence (discuss)

@Darrell O'Donnell

Poll in Discord (leans towards Monthly)
DECISION: As of 07:33

13 for Monthly

1 for Weekly

DECISION - MONTHLY - with APAC & North America/
@Darrell O'Donnell to contact support@lfdecentralizedtrust.org

• Monthly Cadence with APAC & EMEA+NA spots

• Thursdays - THIRD THURSDAY of each month (7am PT / 5pm PT)

  • next meetings: March 19, April 16, May 21 

10 mins

TRs on CAWG Spec

@Scott Perry

• CAWG is recommending a URI for a trust registry

• looking at metadata concepts

• TRs are a way of demonstrating authority (control) for the sources

• Scott would like some assistance from TRTF (CAWG is a joint DIF/ToIP group)

• EVENT: https://itif.org/events/2026/03/05/context-matters-building-trust-in-digital-content/

  • Thursday, March 5, 2026, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST

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5 mins

• Review decisions/action items

• Planning for next meeting 

Chairs