Updates from TSWG members of general interest to the group.

• Judith Fleenor wants to get the pulse of the ToIP community about whether we can/should participate in a major way in a conference on "Digital Trust" the two days prior (May 8-9th) to the LF Open Source Summit North American (May 10-12 in Vancouver: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/).
  • The challenge is that the timing is the same time as the European Identity Conference in Berlin, at which ToIP had a strong contingent and a successful panel in 2022, and is planning to submit at least one new panel proposal for this year.
  • The Open Source Summit attendees would be primarily developers.
  • In our discussion, we were concerned about the time it would take to prepare, the amount of coordination that will be necessary between the four participating LF orgs (ToIP, DIF, Hyperledger, OWF).
  • Another option is to hold the Digital Trust conference as part of the LF Europe Open Source Summit in September in Spain.

To start the new year, we want to see who wishes to step up into leadership positions in the TSWG.

• Drummond Reed has volunteered to join Darrell O'Donnell as co-chair.
• Any other co-chair volunteers?
• Any vice chair volunteers?
• Darrell noted that Antti Kettunen has mentioned interest in being a vice-chair.
• Daniel Bachenheimer is interested in being a vice-chair to help with some of the administration and coordination tasks.
• Judith suggested we also seek volunteers who are also going to be active in OWF.

ACTION: Drummond Reed to send an email to the TSWG mailing list asking for other volunteers to serve as co-chair or vice chairs.

• Darrell O'Donnell Create a DIF/ToIP collaboration page 
  • Darrell has created this wiki page here.
• Andor will set up a Google doc to list the potential components / areas to work on next in the TATF.
  • Done, see this Google sheet

See this proposed charter for the Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF).

Drummond drafted this proposed ToIP blog post (link to ToIP Google Drive that should be available to all ToIP members) providing the full context for launching the TSPTF.

We had a discussion about multi-stakeholder collaboration on the formation.

ACTION: Daniel Bachenheimer to review this proposed ToIP blog post providing the full context for launching the Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF).

ACTION: Drummond Reed to send a link to the blog post to the Communications Committee for expedited review.

DECISION: The TSWG approves the establishment of the Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force (TSPTF).

Technology Architecture TF — Wenjing Chu  Drummond Reed

• Meetings will restart next week in this same time slot & continue every 4 weeks.
• Relatively little feedback has been received so far; more is expected once the Trust Spanning Protocol Task Force meetings begin.
• The main action item is moving forward with the terminology definitions; Drummond Reed and Neil Thomson have this action item.

Trust Registry TF — Darrell O'Donnell Andor Kesselman Antti Kettunen 

• This TF will continue to meet on Thursdays (NA/EU at 07:00-8:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC; APAC at 18:00-19:00 PT / 02:00-03:00 UTC).

Trust Spanning Protocol TF — Drummond Reed Daniel Hardman

• The first meeting is in two weeks.
• Daniel Hardman will be holding a discussion of the need for cross-collaboration on the Trust Spanning Protocol at the next meeting of the DIF DIDComm User Group (open to anyone; IPR-free) on Monday January 9th at 12:00 PT / 20:00 UTC.

ACDC TF — Samuel Smith Phil Feairheller 

• No regular ACDC TF members were able to attend.

ACTION: Drummond Reed to contact Samuel Smith and Phil Feairheller to ask them to attend the new schedule of TSWG Plenary meetings to give reports on the ACDC TF.

AI & Metaverse (AIM) Technology TF — Wenjing Chu Vikas Malhotra 

• No regular AIM TF members were able to attend.