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2024-12-12 GSWG Meeting Notes

2024-12-12 GSWG Meeting Notes

Dec 12, 2024

Meeting Date

Nov 14, 2024 The GSWG meets bi-weekly on Thursdays at 11:00-12:00 PT / 19:00-20:00 UTC. Check the ToIP Calendar for meeting dates.

Zoom Meeting Link / Recording

Attendees

  • @Scott Perry, @Mary Lacity, @Drummond Reed, @Carly Huitema, Wendy Seltzer

Main Goal of this Meeting

Bi-weekly Plenary reviewing Task Force updates.

Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)

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.

  • New Members:

5 min

Updates from last call's To-Do's

 

@Scott Perry will create a list of nominees with names, email addresses and a sentence about each person for Judith to facilitate the voting process next week. [1]
@Judith Fleenor will check in with each nominee to ensure they accept their nomination.
Bree will check in with Kyle to validate whether he wants to be nominated.
@Judith Fleenor will talk to John later in the afternoon about how BC Gov will interface with Trust over IP in the future
@Drummond Reed Will ask John 
@Neil Thomson will track down Ben Moskowitz's slides from the VRN day presentation and send them to Drummond. 
TODO for post Jan 1 - Cosumer reports still determining what they want to release to the participants of VRM Day & public.
@Drummond Reed Will try

5 min

Announcements

TF Lead

 

5 min

Task Force Updates

Chairs

  • @Scott Perry

    • Active task forces: 

    • @John Phillips Arch Tack will will update agenda for next year

  • @Drummond Reed

  • @Neil Thomson: Data Modeling

    • Focus on layered data models

    • Travel profile is getting traction expecting to go public in June and looking for funding

5 min

Nominees for ToIP Steering Committee - 2025

@Scott Perry

@Drummond Reed Update from Steering Committee  

  • The size of the committee is 7 to 15

  • Decision to accept all nominees once they confirm their interest to participate

  • Judith confirmed that 13 of 16 are willing to accept

  • SC will meet monthly

  • LFDT has different staff for ToIP to help with marketing, technical and other services

Nominees from the Governance Stack Working Group

The Governance Stack Working Group had a meeting to discuss nominees for the Trust Over IP steering committee. Here is a list of the people who were nominated:

  • John Phillips nominated himself.

  • Scott Perry was nominated by Drummond Reed.

  • Steven Milstein asked Scott Perry to nominate him.

  • Drummond Reed was nominated by Carly Huitema in the Ecosystem working group.

  • Carly Huitema was nominated by Scott Perry and Judith Fleenor for the work she has done.

  • Kyle was nominated by Bree Blazicevic but she suggested there might be people ahead of him for the nomination.

  • Bree Blazicevic was nominated by Judith Fleenor.

  • John Jordan was suggested as a possible nominee by Carly Huitema, but it is unclear if he is interested.

  • Neil Thomson allowed his name to be put on the list.

Wendy Seltzer was also invited to be nominated, but said she would think about it and get back to Judith Fleenor.

Wendy: "FYI, I had indicated to Judith that I would not be available, with thanks for the nomination."

It was noted that anyone on the call was welcome to be nominated. Judith Fleenor stated that she would check in with everyone whose name was put forward to make sure they accepted the nomination.

There are 13-15 positions to be filled on the steering committee.

5 min

  • Any other business

@Scott Perry

Proposal to merge GSWG with Ecosystem Foundry Working Group

  • The original objective was to the establishment of Gov Stack and equal importance to Tech Stack

  • Developed & published tool kit and implemented by some ecosystems

  • More development work is needed, which can be achieved with Governance Architecture Task Force

  • Ecosystems Working Group is engaging with communities and most conversations involve governance 

  • ToIP Toolkit can help and those communities while providing feedback on how to develop next version

  • Ecosystem Foundry Working Group has accepted earlier today to merge

    • Will need to change their charter

    • Will decide if they want to restructure their Chairs

  • @Drummond Reed: "We would develop a new joint charter. I propose to call the merged Working Group the “Ecosystem and Governance Working Group"

  • @Carly Huitema: All for the merger and hoping to get new blood to contribute

  • @Scott Perry motion to merger as Jan 1 2025

    • @Drummond Reed Seconds the motion

    • No objections so passed

    • This is the last GSWG call

  • @Carly Huitema:

    • "Jan 9th at 11am will be the next meeting of EFWG and we will discuss how to grow" 

    • "Chairs of EFWG and GSWG should meet .... soon? and rewrite the charter and discuss leadership"

5 min

  • Review decisions/action items

  • Planning for the next meeting 

 

 

Meeting Notes

Action Items