Objectives
- To develop the roles and responsibilities of actors within the ToIP Governance Stack
- To develop standard processes of roles operating at all layers of the ToIP Governance Stack
- To align roles and processes with the ToIP Technical Stack
- To align with schemas and semantics being developed in other areas of the ToIP Foundation
- To standardize process variables for various levels of trust assurance mechanisms
Background/Context
The ToIP Foundation was established as a public resource for the enablement of more trusted communication using verifiable credentials.The depiction of interoperability has been demonstrated in a stack diagram with two hemisperes: a Governance Stack and a Technical Stack operating in four distinct layers 1) Utility (DLT Blockchain) Layer, 2) Provider (Agent/Wallet) Layer, 3) Credential (Issuer/Verifier/Holder) Layer and 4) Ecosystem (Governance Authority) Layer. This has been depicted in "Stack diagram and further explained in a concept RFC developed as part of the Hyperledger Aries project (https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/blob/master/concepts/0289-toip-stack/README.md)
As one of a set of "genesis" task forces birthed by the GSWG, This task force will further develop the roles and processes previously defined and will be used in establishing generally accepted roles, responsibilities and standard processes of actors participating in ToIP ecosystems
Organizers
- Scott Perry, Scott S. Perry CPA PLLC
Membership and Joining
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Deliverables
The GSWG P&R Task Force intends to create well defined descriptions of roles, responsibilities and process that all actors in the ToIP Ecosystem will operate. The focus will be on governance and operational processes and only touch upon technical processes as needed for its purposes. This task force will not focus on technical interoperability processes (deferring to the Technical Stack Working Group). These definitions are critical in the establishment and consistency of applying governance principles for all four ToIP layers.
Key deliverables will include, but are not limited to:
- ToIP Roles and Responsibilities which further defines the players that execute and rely upon key operations in the ToIP ecosystem at all governance layers
- ToIP Governance Layer Process Definitions are a set of defined processes occurring at the different ToIP Governance Layers
Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)
As a Task Force (TF) of the Governance Stack WG (GSWG), the GSWG P&R TF inherits the IPR terms from the GSWG JDF Charter. These include:
- Copyright mode: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. For the GSWG P&R TF, this is probably the only relevant licensing provision.
- Patent mode: W3C Mode (based on the W3C Patent Policy). The GSWG P&R TF is not expected to produce any deliverables subject to patent rights.
- Source code: Apache 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html. The GSWG P&R TF is not expected to produce source code.
Milestones
Key milestones will include, but are not limited to:
- Formation of Task Force Group members
- Finalizing and evangelizing TF objectives
- Drafting of Roles and Responsiblities document
- Drafting of Governance Layer Process descriptions
The work of the GSWG P&R TF will be complete when a final draft of deliverables are submitted to the GSWG and the ToIP Steering Group
Meeting Schedule
To be developed
Mailing List and Communications
This task force uses the following for communications
- Mailing List: The wide mailing list available to the members of the Governance Stack Working Group
- Slack: The Slack channel for the Governance Stack Working Group (#NEED REFERENCE)