Introduction
The Concepts & Terminology Working Group helps ToIP members and communities understand one another at whatever level of precision they need.
Meetings and Meeting Pages
The CTWG meets bi-weekly from 10:00-11:00 PT / 17:00-18:00 UTC. 2019 meetings: Oct 12, 26, Nov 9, 23; Dec 7, 21.
See the Meeting Pages for agendas, notes, and recordings.
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Contributors/users in ToIP come from various backgrounds. Their culture may not be Western. English may not be their native tongue. They may be experts in non-technological topics that are relevant for ToIP. Working with one another presumes a setting where participants have some level of shared understanding. Often, sharing one's understanding at a superficial level suffices. Other situations require that underlying concepts are shared in a more in-depth fashion. It's like cars: people buying, selling, or driving cars do not need in-depth shared knowledge about cars, whereas (maintenance or construction) engineers or liability lawyers need to share a deeper knowledge of how cars do (or do not) work.
We expect to see situations of "language confusion", i.e. in which people use words or phrases, the intension (not: intention) of which differs from the interpretation of some listeners/readers. Sometimes a casual glance at a dictionary or glossary is the solution. In other cases, deeper understanding matters, e.g. in when drafting specifications or contracts. Then we need more than a set of definitions. This WG aims helps ToIP community participants understand one another at whatever level of precision they need.
Scope
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The scope of the Concepts and Terminology Working Group is to develop shared concepts and terminology available to all stakeholders in the Trust over IP stack. This includes developing artifacts and tools for discovering, documenting, defining, and (deeply) understanding the concepts and terms used within ToIP. Key deliverables include one or more glossaries together with a corpus of data underlying them. This data will consist of formally modeled concepts, plus their relations and constraints, and will encompass perspectives from technical, governance, business, legal and other realms. Although this Working Group (WG) will maintain these glossaries and this corpus of data via repositories that all ToIP WGs and Task Forces (TFs) can contribute to and inherit from, this does not preclude WGs or TFs from maintaining their own specialized glossaries if they require. Such specialized glossaries, together with other generators of concepts and terminology elsewhere in the industry, are expected to feed back into the glossaries and corpus of data maintained by this WG in a cycle of continuous improvement.
Meetings
Schedule:
US/EU: meetings take place bi-weekly, every second Monday from 10:00-11:00 PT / 17:00-18:00 UTC.
See the Meeting Pages for agendas, notes, and recordings from all meetings.
Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright, Patent, Source Code)
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