2024-12-11 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

Attendance

Steering Committee Members Attending and Participating 

• Daniel Bachenheimer (Accenture Global Solutions Limited)
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs)
• Wenjing Chu (Futurewei Technologies, Inc.)
• Drummond Reed (Gen Digital)
• Karla McKenna (GLEIF)
• Nicholas Racz (Key State Capital)
• Keren Leung (Certizen)
• Steve Milstein (

Also Participating

• Michelle Janata (LF PM)
• Daniela Barbosa (LFDT Executive Director)

Agenda 

• Recording
  • This meeting was not recorded
• Presentation (Google Slides)

Call to Order
Drummond Reed called the meeting to order at approx. 12:02 pm PT and announced the meeting would be recorded. There were no objections.

Agenda

Agenda Review (1 min)

Minutes Approval (2 min)

Welcome New Members (0 min)

TWSG-3 License Change Update (2 min)

ToIP Steering Committee Elections (20 min)

LFDT Integration Update (5 min)

Communications Plan (5 min)

Calendar Reminder (1 min)
Open Discussion

Approval of Minutes

The minutes from the previous Steering Committee meeting November 13, 2024, will be approved at the next meeting on January 15, 2025.

New Member Review 

No new members since our last meeting on November 13, 2024.

TSWG - License Change Update

45 day notice was sent to the TSWG mailing list on Nov 15 of the transition from TSWG-2 (which operates under the Open Web Foundation patent license) to TSWG-3 (which will return to the W3C patent license)

At the first TSWG Plenary meeting in January, we will formally close TSWG-2, open TSWG-3, and contribute the existing work to TSWG-3.

This will facilitate collaboration with DIF and W3C on several specifications, including TSP and TRAP.

ToIP Steering Committee Elections

ToIP Steering Committee Nominees:

Alex Tweeddale, cheqd

Carly Huitema, University of Guelph

Caryn Van Exel, GS1

Chris Buchanan, MITRE

Drummond Reed, Gen

Eric Drury, Forth.IO

Eva Chan, Certizen

Karla McKenna, GLEIF

Marie Wallace, Accenture

Neil Thomson, Query Vision

Nicholas Rasz, Keystate Capital

John Phillips, Sezoo

Scott Perry, Digital Governance Institute

Steve McCown, Anonyome Labs

Steven Milstein, Collab.Ventures

Wenjing Chu, Futurewei

ToIP Steering Committee Election Proposal

The size of the SC is up to the Steering Committee. Ranges from 7 to 15 members have been suggested. Since we have 16 nominees (not all of which have been fully confirmed), rather than hold an election, the committee could do the following:

Check with all nominees whether they are willing to serve.

For all confirmed nominees, appoint them as the 2025 Steering Committee

By consensus the steering committee has agreed on the 16 nominees.

Action Item: Drummond to follow up with each of the nominees and ask them to commit to the Steering Committee.

Action Item: Drummond Reed to update the Wiki Page with the newly appointed Steering Committee once they confirm their desire to commit to the committee.

LFDT Integration Update

Migration to the LFDT Tools, LFX Meetings for Zoom and Calendar, moving from Slack to Discord, etc. 

Awaiting decisions by LF on how to handle standards organization within LF Tools and backend methods.
Goal, 2025 new meeting Calendar will be in the new LFX Meetings and Zoom Rooms for all meetings starting in January 2025.
Other than calendars, the tool changes will happen at the end of Q1.

Communication Plan - Website Updates

Updates to the website are awaiting completion of the next public review draft of the ToIP Technical Architecture Spec.

The goal is to complete this over the holidays

At that point we will update the following pages on the site:

Technology Arch Specification page

Evolution of the Stack page

Then we will publish a blog post about these updates, and highlight ToIP’s goals in 2025

Next Meetings:

All Members Meeting - Holiday Party Wednesday December 18th

10 am PDT / 1 pm EST / 17:00 UTC / 19:00 CEST

Adjournment

At approximately 12:57 PT, Drummond Reed adjourned the meeting.