The TSWG holds plenary meetings once every four weeks on Wednesdays. The 2023 meeting dates are Jan 4, Feb 1, Mar 1, Mar 29, Apr 26, May 24, Jun 21, Jul 19, Aug 16, Sep 13, Oct 11, Nov 8, Dec 6.
Two meetings are held each Wednesday to accommodate global time zones:
NA/EU Meeting: 08:00-09:00 PT / 16:00-17:00 UTC
APAC Meeting: 18:00-19:00 PT / 02:00-03:00 UTC
See the ToIP Calendar for all meeting dates, times and logistics, including Zoom links.
Agenda Items and Notes (including all relevant links)
Time
Agenda Item
Lead
Notes
3 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:
Clare Nelson is the new Executive Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF).
5 min
General announcements
All
Updates from TSWG members of general interest to the group.
Clare mentioned that some major announcements are coming from DIF member companies. She said she's on a constant search for production use cases, especially those who are willing to make a guest blog post about it.
2 min
Review of action items from the previous meeting
Chairs
ACTION ITEM:Drummond ReedandNeil Thomsonto put together a video tutorial for how to use terms wikis.
Drummond reported that there is has been some good asynchronous progress on the three major action items left (glossary, revised conceptual diagram, use cases). Two of them are on our agenda today.
We are also seeing just what we predicted: the most important feedback on ToIP Technology Architecture Specification (TAS) requirements is coming from our own TFs — primarily the Trust Registry TF and the Trust Spanning Protocol TF.
So we will most likely want both of them to get to the Working Draft stage and see if they have any further feedback on the TAS requirements before we finalize it.
Darrell explained that the TF has made several key decisions, starting with an objective statement that focuses on the definition of the Trust Registry Protocol. Other discussions, such as trust decision models, are going to be deferred.
The TF is now working on the logical model and a Swagger API definition.
Great collaboration with DIF members including Sam Curren and Andor. Good alignment.
Daniel Hardman shared that have just finished the proposal stage (the "preliminary input stage") and are about to enter the consolidation stage.
Six meetings have been dedicated to four proposals.
The Github discussions have been extremely in-depth and detailed — enough so that it is difficult for all TSPTF members to follow all of it.
The next major step is consolidation of the proposals: how we will figure out alignment between the protocols. We anticipate this will involve a lot of whiteboarding and discussion of tradeoffs.
The goal of this stage will be to have rough consensus on the design of the protocol.
Daniel is hoping that we will have a full draft by the Fall 2023 IIW.
Sam Smith shared that there are a lot of issues that are so meaty that they require in-depth Github discussion. But what they really require for resolution is extended workshops.
We anticipate we will need some longer "TSP Workshops" and are planning those now.
Judith Fleenor advocated having as much discussion at IIW as possible.
We have made great strides in developing the ToIP Glossary Workspace as a Google doc, with thanks to contributions from Neil Thomson and Christine Martin. We will explain why we are taking this approach and the specific review and input we would like to request from TSWG members.