Community Writing Workshop: Introduction to ToIP V2 White Paper

Meeting Schedule

• Every Tuesday (UTC Wednesday) during August 2021 —05:00 to 06:00pm PST / 08:00 to 09:00pm  EST / 12:00 to 01:00 UTC (Wednesday)
• See the entry on the ToIP Calendar for a calendar invite you can copy to your own calendar.

Zoom Meeting Location & Recording

https://zoom.us/j/98069743654?pwd=SVpLdTdrQ2lYamhhellNWldzbFNHZz09

Link to the recording

Link to the Zoom chat

Facilitators

• Victor Golubkov
• Drummond Reed

Attendees

• Carly Huitema
• sankarshan
• Eric Welton
• Jacques Bikoundou
• P A Subrahmanyam
• Paul Grehan
• Wenjing Chu
• Lynn Bendixsen
• Chris Raczkowski
• Judith Fleenor
• Daniel Bachenheimer
• Vikas Malhotra
• Aamir Abdullah

Key Documents

• Treatment & Guidelines for the Introduction to ToIP V2 White Paper
• Discussion Document for Introduction to ToIP V2 White Paper <== This is a discussion document for contributing general ideas, thoughts, suggestions
• Introduction to ToIP V2 <== This is the formal Draft Deliverable (in a Google doc) to which contributions or suggestions can be made directly

Agenda

Notes

• Follow up on this idea: The WP should function as a a "call to understanding" to educate audiences about the ToIP stack and the ToIP Foundation. By contrast, the ToIP website should function more as 'a call to action' and address why audiences should get involved in the work of the ToIP Foundation.
• Judith Fleenor provided an update about new ToIP website and how the WP will be connected with the website and where the public might find WP on the website.
• Drummond Reed updated current work process
• Wenjing Chu proposes to move the Problem Statement earlier in the White Paper content.

Introduction

• Victor Golubkov Drummond Reed  shared their addition to the Introduction section.

ToIP in a Nutshell

• Drummond Reed High level summary to quickly capture what is Trust over IP. Bring up a TCP/IP metaphor and present two diagrams of the TCP/IP and ToIP stacks. We need to add a conceptual illustration of how ToIP stack.
• Judith Fleenor shared examples how ToIP can be explained to average person from the grocery store or social party in one sentence using driver's license and digital wallet.
• Wenjing Chu shared that the decentralization is one of the most important parts to be explained.
• Carly Huitema Focus on decentralization part too. The challenge is it takes the whole government to create trustful documents currently. But in the future there will be many more documents that will be creating trustful documents. We provide tools and specification that simplify spinning up webs of trust in various ecosystems.
• Lynn Bendixsen Technical stuff is good in the White Paper, we coming back to decision who will be our audience.Start high level for a more general audience (include decentralized "story" etc.) then as you get into the specifics - perhaps gradually - get more and more technical.
• Victor Golubkov with decentralization, you control and manage your own data - of any kind.
• Daniel Bachenheimerproposal is: "How about… ToIP is a set of rules that governs how trust is established among computer systems connected to the internet? "

ToIP Unique Value Proposition

• Victor Golubkov provided report on the ToIP unique value proposition survey. We've got 26 answers so far.  We need to try increase number of responses. We can also provide a way to discuss variants using extra wiki page.We will also announce this questionnaire during All members Meeting in August. Two most popular answers.
  
  • The Trust over IP Foundation is defining a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines both cryptographic verifiability at the machine layer and human accountability at the business, legal, and social layers.
  • The Trust over IP Foundation is a unique global forum that enables a diverse group of members to collaborate on how to create interoperable decentralized digital trust infrastructure. We can explain the problem and then present ToIP in a Nutshell
    
• Discussion...

ToIP Working Groups

• Judith Fleenor and Victor Golubkov will coordinate text with WG chairs.

Decisions

• The WP should function as a a "call to understanding" to educate audiences about the ToIP stack and the ToIP Foundation. By contrast, the ToIP website should function more as 'a call to action' and address why audiences should get involved in the work of the ToIP Foundation.

Action Items

• Victor Golubkov to post a request for comments on the #general Slack channel on "What is the ToIP Foundation’s unique value proposition?"
• Judith Fleenor and Victor Golubkov will coordinate text inside ToIP Working Groups section with WG chairs.
• Dave McKay will contribute text in the The Limitations of Account-Based Digital Trust Infrastructure section.
• Scott Perry will contribute text in the Real-World Trust Infrastructure section (possible renamed) but not until after Aug 15.
• Drummond Reed will contribute text in the Introduction and ToIP in a Nutshell sections.