Ecosystem & Governance Working Group
- Carly
Introduction and Scope
The Ecosystem & Governance Working Group takes over the work of the Ecosystem Foundry Working Group, Governance Stack Working Group and Utility Foundry Working Group (as of Jan 2025).
The scope of the Ecosystem & Governance Working Group is twofold:
to facilitate a community of practice among digital trust ecosystem stakeholders, including governed parties, governing parties, implementers, digital trust utilities, service providers, and others.
to define models, tools, guides, and interoperability standards for governance frameworks for digital trust ecosystems, especially those using the Trust over IP stack as described in the Introduction to ToIP paper and the Design Principles for the ToIP Stack paper.
Meetings
Schedule:
US/EU: This WG current meets bi-weekly, as described in the ToIP calendar (updated to LF calendar Jan 2025).
See the Meeting Page for agendas, notes and recordings from all meetings.
Deliverables
Ecosystem Components White Paper
Chairs / Leads
Co-Chair: Eric Drury
Co-Chair: Carly
Co-Chair: @shwetha
Co-Chair: @Steven Milstein
Co-Chair: @Scott Perry
How to join
You can join this WG by signing up for the Foundation mailing list at http://lists.trustoverip.org . Our mailing list is ecosystem-foundry-wg@lists.trustoverip.org
Members as well as observers are welcome (with the important caveat below).
Participation
For the protection of all Members, participation in working groups, meetings and events is limited to members, including their employees, of the Trust over IP Foundation who have signed the membership documents and thus agreed to the intellectual property rules governing participation. If you or your employer are not a member, we ask that you not participate in meetings by verbal contribution or otherwise take any action beyond observing.
Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)
The WG inherits the IPR terms from the JDF Charter. These include:
Copyright mode: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Patent mode: W3C Mode (based on the W3C Patent Policy).
Source code: Apache 2.0, available at Apache License, Version 2.0 . The EGWG is not expected to produce source code.
Task Forces
Governance Architecture Task Force